“This judgment shows that it was a charade put on by the technocrats,” denounces RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy

The National Rally is at the heart of an investigation similar to that which targeted the MoDem and the UDF for their parliamentary assistants of MEPs.

“This judgment shows that it was a charade put on by the technocrats and our adversaries in the European Union who do not support any form of opposition at the time”denounced Monday February 5 on franceinfo the RN deputy for the Somme Jean-Philippe Tanguy, member of the national office of the National Rally, after the acquittal of François Bayrou in the affair of the European parliamentary assistants of the MoDem.

Jean-Philippe Tanguy would like to recall the “context” from the time when the affair of MEPs’ assistants began. “At the time, the MoDem was an anti-system party, particularly against corruption which Mr. Bayrou denounced very strongly. In fact all the anti-system parties of the time, the RN, the MoDem and the Insoumis, are being prosecuted for vile reasons politicians.”

The RN deputy evokes the “time when François Bayrou fought the oligarchs of the regime, during the time of Nicolas Sarkozy”and in particular on “the question of highways”. “All that is in the past, but at the time, Mr. Bayrou was a bit of a troublemaker. All troublemakers are pursued by the system”he continues.

A trial in the fall for the RN

Jean-Philippe Tanguy does not “not happy” of the acquittal of François Bayrou but in “take note”. “This shows that from the beginning, we have been right to denounce this legal maneuver”, he believes. But the member of the national office of the RN does not want to draw a parallel with the trial which awaits Marine Le Pen next October and November. “Marine Le Pen and all of our elected officials are obviously innocent of what they are accused of”, assures the deputy. According to him, “the European Parliament considers that a parliamentary assistant is deprived of his civil rights and does not have the right to engage in politics. This is the totally bureaucratic conception of democracy”. He judges that the “European bureaucrats are people who cannot support the vote of the people and who believe that MPs and their teams should no longer engage in politics and become technocrats themselves”.

“All French people have the right, alongside their work, to have an activist, trade union, voluntary or associative activity, that poses no problem”adds Jean-Philippe Tanguy. “But that obviously poses a problem for the technocrats who, in any case, do not campaign and never go see the voters.”