RÉCIT – While the leader of the RN will know her legal fate in less than a month, the entire French political class is exploring the hypothesis of a complete turnaround: that she might be able to run in the presidential election.
Tick-tock, makes the sound of the lepéniste clock. Less than a month before the fateful date of July 7, the executives of the National Rally (RN) are starting to look at the hands with a certain anxiety. That day, the judges of the Paris Court of Appeal will decide the judicial and political fate of Marine Le Pen, the historic leader of the nationalist party. Will she be sentenced to a heavy sentence of ineligibility in the case of the National Front parliamentary assistants as in the first instance? This will prevent the deputy from Pas-de-Calais, already a three-time candidate, from running a fourth time in the presidential election of 2027. Will she be sentenced to a lighter sentence, or even relaxed? This is the dream that his lieutenants, and a good part of the deputies, do not dare to express out loud.
“You know, I’m an eternal optimist.”says Renaud Labaye, general secretary of the RN parliamentary group, right-hand man of Marine Le Pen. The man also happily repeats a…


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