Budget: Marine Le Pen "has little faith" in non-censorship and intends to run in the event of dissolution

Marine Le Pen says she has "little faith" in a version of François Bayrou's budget that is not censored by the National Rally, saying she is determined to run in the legislative elections in the event of dissolution, despite her sentence of ineligibility.

"François Bayrou would have to almost completely reverse the large sums he has announced. I have little faith in that," summarized the leader of the RN deputies in an interview with Le Parisien published online Wednesday evening, the day after the Prime Minister's budget announcements.

"As things stand, it is impossible for the National Rally to not censure this government," she reiterated. "The tax burden is still concentrated on two categories: retirees and the middle classes," she said, criticizing the lack of sufficient savings, according to her, on immigration-related spending, the scope of the state, and the announced elimination of two public holidays.

"How does depriving the French of two public holidays save the state money? It's an additional financial effort asked of those who work. It's not exactly the same thing," she criticized, referring to a "decoy." "It's the shocking measure that, obviously, François Bayrou will come back to and say, 'Ah, you see, I've made a huge effort after all.'"

Asked about her own situation, in the event of a new dissolution of the Assembly, the MP for Pas-de-Calais replied: "I will present myself and I will defend my candidacy before the bodies responsible for validating it." In this case, she would submit a priority question of constitutionality (QPC) to the Constitutional Council on the subject of the immediate execution of a sentence of ineligibility .

Marine Le Pen was sentenced at first instance in the case of the assistants of FN (now RN) MEPs to an immediate five-year ineligibility sentence, which prevents her at this stage from running in the next presidential or legislative elections, even if she has appealed.

"The constitutional authority could finally analyse the validity of this provisional execution of ineligibility (...) I had said that I would use all possible remedies, I will do so," she argued.