Don’t appear resigned even if fundamentally your position has not changed. This is the message Marine Le Pen wanted to convey this Sunday in a newspaper interview Western France. He said he was determined to be the National Party candidate in the 2027 presidential election, despite his judicial schedule and previous statements that could be interpreted as a way of throwing in the towel.
“No, no, I didn’t give up at all, I was very aggressive,” he said in an interview with regional daily Breton. “What I am saying is that if the Court of Cassation makes its decision too close to the election date, the National Rally campaign will not be able to take place in good conditions,” he added. In such circumstances, the RN leader must hand over control to a second-in-command, the party president,
