2023-06-01 16:12:04
The National Front (FN), which became the National Rally (RN), is accused of having been a ” drive belt “ of Russian power, according to the conclusions of the commission of inquiry into foreign interference, parliamentary sources told Agence France-Presse.
Excerpts from the report, written by MP Constance Le Grip (Renaissance), leaked Thursday on RMC et Mediapart. The editor emphasizes “alignment” of the FN on the “Russian Speech” at time “illegal annexation” Crimea in 2014, when the party took out a loan from a Czech-Russian bank.
It was the RN which had launched this parliamentary commission of inquiry, supposed to defuse the regular accusations on the subject.
Lepenist elected officials, including the chairman of the commission, Jean-Philippe Tanguyvoted against the report, which was adopted by eleven votes to five, according to a parliamentary source.
Marine Le Pen denounces a “political trial”
Insubordinate France abstained. The report shows “at least a guilty casualness” of the RN with regard to Russia, but it is not “exhaustive” on the influence of other States in France, estimated the rebellious Aurélien Saintoul.
During a press conference in the Pas-de-Calais, Marine Le Pen brushed aside the conclusions which she compared to “a political trial”. “There is nothing, in fact”she continued, considering that the report was “like the rapporteur, that is to say sectarian, dishonest and completely politicized”. “This report is a judgment on the political positions that I have been able to take”, she considered.
The far-right leader had been auditioned last week by this commission. Under oath, she had challenged any political counterpart in exchange for the Russian loan contracted by the former National Front, while she had refused to condemn the annexation of Crimea by Russia a few months later. “I formally deny having made any decision whatsoever to please anyone”she explained, arguing that “the arrival or not of a loan has not changed one iota the opinions that have always been ours”. On the merits, the president of the deputies RN had let go that she “considered[t] that, freely, the inhabitants of Crimea had expressed themselves by voting to be attached to Russia”.
On Thursday, Mrs Le Pen said she was “Leaving this commission with the feeling of the collapse of democratic culture”. She felt that her political opponents “reproach [au RN] to think differently” of them, affirming that “the report barely speaks of the loan on which the whole campaign of defamation and slander was nevertheless built, because all the authorities who were questioned indicated that there was nothing”.
After the leak of the extracts of the report, the deputy Julien Bayou (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts) evoked « a fiasco » Who “returns in the teeth” you RN. “The commission overwhelms the Le Pen clan: it is only justice for these patriots of the living room, accomplices of the enemies of the Republic”commented his colleague Sacha Houlié (Renaissance).
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