These messages risk altering the sincerity of the ballot, she defends. Marine Le Pen on Friday asked the National Commission for the Control of the Electoral Campaign for the Presidential Election (CNCCEP) to seize the campaign team of Emmanuel Macron, a priori at the origin of sending SMS that the far-right candidate judges lies.
The disputed text messages, which include a link to the site of candidate Macron, claim that Marine Le Pen wants the “end of the Paris Agreement”.
“The dissemination of this allegation is perfectly false in such a way that it is necessary to make an immediate correction”, believe the lawyers of Marine Le Pen in a letter sent to the CNCCEP.
“Transforming the presidential election into an ecological referendum based on a false sorite is an element likely to alter the sincerity of the ballot and will undermine the result of the election”, further affirm the advice of the candidate, noting that the distribution of the SMS is, according to them, “massive”.
Towards an intervention of the authorities?
In addition to stopping the dissemination of the message, Marine Le Pen’s teams asked the Commission “to issue a detailed opinion on this maneuver to intervene with the competent authorities if necessary”.
Contacted by AFP on Friday afternoon, Emmanuel Macron’s campaign team did not indicate whether it was at the origin of the SMS in question.
Asked after his last campaign meeting in Figeac (Lot), Emmanuel Macron said he was not aware. Marine Le Pen “said a lot of things to get rid of the band-aids that cluttered her up”, he added, believing that the debate had “shown that the spirit of responsibility for the country and of unity for the country” was on his side. “The National Front (extreme right-wing party that became National Rally) has not changed,” he insisted.