The president of the party, Jordan Bardelladefined the search a “spectacular and unpublished operation”, accusing political persecution. Bardella said that no opposition party has ever undergone a similar pressure under the fifth French Republic. “All the documents are now in the hands of justice, but it is not clear to us what the charges are,” added Bardella.
Investigation on the electoral funding of the RN
The French prosecutor explained that the investigations should “Allowing to establish whether these campaigns have been financed in particular through illicit loans by individuals for the benefit of the party or candidates of the national grouping, as well as through excessive charges of services or invoices of fictitious services that were then included in the requests for a flat -rate reimbursement by the State for the costs of the campaign”.
Parallel with other European investigations
Reactions inside and outside the party
Several party exponents have expressed indignation for what happened. Jean-Philippe Tanguy, President of the RN group at the National Assembly, he accused the institutions of being corrupt, defining the operation an attack to maintain political power. Also Laurent Jacobellithe party spokesman, suggested that the objective of the authorities is to obtain information on the future political strategies of the RN. “In our country, the persecution is on the agenda. We have fully respected the law. We have nothing to reproach ourselves, we conducted these campaigns in full compliance with the law “, The former RN treasurer and member of the National Party Secretariat, Wallerand de Saint-Just, explained.
“No French bank wanted to give money to the Rassemblement National to finance its electoral campaigns, therefore it is still unlikely to accuse the Rassemblement National of self -financing and of having perfectly legal loans, regulated by loan contracts, all reimbursed by an electoral account validated and of which the National Electoral Council Commission already has all the information,” he said Bardella irritated. “I believe that this search for this reason is actually a pretext to seize all internal documents from our computers, to search my office”. For Bardella it is a real
Recall that private loans are legal, even if under precise conditions and limits. Between 2021 and 2023, the RN would have exploited over 1100. The President of the CNCCFP, Christian Charpyhe had already warned that the failure to reimburse these sums could configure undeclared donations, violating the electoral code.
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