The first reaction of Marine Le Penthe National Association Leader (RN), to her conviction for embezzlement and her five -year disqualification, which puts her candidacy for the presidential elections of 2027. In an interview in the public chain TF1, the ultra -right -wing candidate said she will continue to fight to be able to present themselves to the Presidentials of 2027 Despite the sentence that condemned him on Monday to five years of disqualification.
“I will not let them eliminate me easily. I will ask that the appeal allow me to raise a candidacy, “Le Pen advanced in an interview on French public television. The political leader, so far favorite in the polls of the presidential elections in within two years, has criticized the sentence, qualifying it as”political decision“which aims to prevent” that the favorite for presidential ones can present “in 2027.
“This trial mounted by our political rivals is based on arguments that are not sustained. It is just a difference in administrative criteria with the European Parliament. There is no personal enrichment. There is no corruption,” said Le Pen, who has lamented what, in his words, is an “interference in the choice of French.”
Le Pen confirms that it will resort, although the resolution could come “too late”
Regarding the appeal of the sentence, Le Pen has confirmed that he will process it, although he has recognized that it will be a long judicial battle, since this type of processes takes Between 18 months and two years to fail. “It would be too late, (but) there is a road. It is narrow, but there are. Millions of French believe in me.” Le Pen explained that he will resort “as soon as possible” because “I am innocent (…) It is obvious that we are all innocent and we want that innocence to be recognized.”
“I am not separated from political life. That will only be decided by the voters. I am not demoralized. I am the same as you, scandalized. I am like you, outraged. But this outrage, this feeling of injustice, will serve as an extra engine to fight,” he said. To remain firm even during the processing of the resource, the five -year disqualification is an almost definitive blow to his options to present himself to the presidential elections of 2027.
Will exhaust the roads to be able to appear in 2027
Regarding the possibility of giving up the command of the party and the presidential candidacy for his number 2, Jordan Bardella -current president of the National Group -, and about the option that he is president, and she Prime Minister, Le Pen has pointed out that, although Bardella is “a tremendous asset of the party, I will not let myself eliminate.”
Le Pen has been sentenced on Monday to Four years in prisontwo of them in firm and to fulfill under monitoring, to pay a Fine of 100,000 euros and five years of disqualification for leading a plot with which he diverted 2.9 million euros, coming from European funds to pay workers from his party making them go through assistants of the MEPs of National Group between 2004 and 2016.
In total, 23 people have been sentenced to sentences between six months and four years in prison, including Le Pen, who has received the hardest punishment. Prison sentences have been accompanied by fines and disqualification, although in some cases it has been suspended. Only one of the defendants has been acquitted.
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