Suspended from the judicial destiny of Marine Le Pen, the national demonstration does not know if its champion can represent itself for the fourth time in the presidential elections. But while waiting for the one in appeal, which could be represented within a year, the distant part is preparing to finance the 2027 campaign.
First objective: reimburse the European Parliament. This last claims more than 3.5 million euros after the decision made by the Paris Court in the trial of European parliamentary assistants in the National Front, which has become RN.
The RN expects almost 14 million euros
This matter where Marine Le Pen was received precisely, among other things, a five -year eligibility sentence with immediate execution for embezzlement of public funds.
“We have not yet begun to reimburse the European Parliament,” explains Kévin Pfeffer, the treasurer of the party, in BFMTV. “We will have to do it before the end of the year.”
To do this, the RN intends to trust a substantial annual public subsidy, which comes from its score in the last legislative elections: Lepenist training expects approximately “14.5 million” for this year. By deducting the damage to pay in the European Parliament, “therefore, there will be 11 million,” calculates Kévin Pfeffer.
A part of the money received by the RN will be dedicated to reimbursements.
“We have 13 million to reimburse, these are loans of individuals. The objective is 10 million at the end of the year, December 5 million, 2026 and 0 in May 2027. We dedicated 5 million euros per year to debt reimbursement,” explains Kévin Pfeffer.
According to this Moselle deputy, the self-financing of the presidential campaign could be made up to “5-6 million” euros. For the rest, it is about “starting to study banks.”
What loan for 2027?
“No food a great hope that we can find a French bank to finance ourselves,” he acknowledges to the treasurer, while his party had to go abroad several times in the past, in particular through the use of a Russian loan during the regional and departmental elections of 2014. What regularly feeds questions about the links between Kremlin and RN.
In addition, during the last presidential elections, Marine Le Pen had contracted a loan of almost 10.7 million euros with the Hungarian Bank MKB, which is mainly arrested by relatives of Hungarian nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, as a communication article said.
“If it is not a French bank, it will be European,” says Kévin Pfeffer before the 2027 presidential election. “It cannot be anything else. We will ask the bank that lent the last time. We will ask all the banks in France and in Europe,” he explains, ensuring that “the files are ready” and will be sent “in the coming days.”
The RN believes very little in the idea of a “Bank of Democracy”, advanced by Prime Minister François Bayrou during his general policy statement on January 14, so that “the financing of political life does not depend on private banks.”
A party manager says: “At the beginning of the year, there was an exchange between Marine Le Pen and Matignon. He was from Cabinet to Cabinet in the Bank of Democracy”
According to him, the Prime Minister “has no idea of proposals and implementation. His office tells us if he has proposals to make … There is a zero track. He cannot do it before his departure, that’s safe”
There is a question for the RN. What campaign will be to finance in 2027? Marine Le Pen? Or that of another, Jordan Bardella, president of the party that pushes her pawns to take the place of her mentor if she became prevented?
“We do not avoid the issue. We highlight that the surveys were the same for the two candidates,” says Kévin Pfeffer. The same explains: “People who are ready to sponsor Marine Le Pen are ready to sponsor Jordan Bardella. I don’t see the difference.”
Source: BFM TV
