In the face of business, the RN no longer tries to pass itself off as a “reasonable” party
Judicial investigations targeting the National Rally are piling up, adding to the still-undigested condemnation of Marine Le Pen, pushing the far-right party to veer definitively into Trump-style conspiracy theories, observes this Swiss journalist in the daily newspaper “Le Temps.” This discredits its normalization strategy.
“They are trying to muzzle France’s leading party!” exclaimed the National Rally (RN) in an email sent to its base on Wednesday evening [July 9]. The French far-right party, which came out on top in the last elections, denounced “an extremely serious attack on pluralism and democratic change in our country.” “Everything will be done to prevent us from gaining power,” added the party’s young president, Jordan Bardella.
Faced with the accumulation of legal problems, the National Rally has clearly decided to bet everything on an aggressive defense strategy, relying heavily on conspiracy theories and relegating the substance of the multiplying cases to the background. At the risk of discrediting the normalization strategy that has favored the party in recent years.
It must be said that the pile of cases is reaching new heights. The recent accumulation obviously began with Marine Le Pen's first-instance conviction in the case of fictitious European parliamentary assistants, a decision that temporarily renders her ineligible.
Then on Tuesday, the European Public Prosecutor's Office announced that it had opened a new investigation into suspected financial irregularities in the far-right parliamentary group to which the RN belonged before 2024.
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