Parliamentary assistants do not work for the Parliament. They are political assistants to elected officials, political by definition,
I did not choose which assistants were assigned to me. That was decided by Marine Le Pen and others. I only signed the contracts,
We have not broken any rules. We have a lot of arguments that can be enumerated in order to defend what seems to me to be the parliamentary freedom that is at stake in this affair,
Every time the party or its leaders are attacked, it lets them cast themselves as the victim,
We have not violated any political and regulatory rules of the European Parliament”.
I don’t have the skills and it was never asked of me,
We won’t get out of this without making significant savings thanks to the European Parliament”.
Of course, part of the RN’s voter base will be galvanised by the trial. But [a trial] is never a good thing, [such support] can only limit the negative effects,
Isn’t it a bit risky that Marine takes me on for her?”
What Marine is asking us to do is the equivalent of us signing up for fictitious jobs ... we’re going to get caught out,
Could I come to Strasburg tomorrow to see how a session works and get to know Mylene Troszczynski who I'm under?"
We will therefore go to court to say that we have committed no offense [...] I am very sure of our innocence,
She knows that what we are accused of is having a different understanding, as a French party, of what an assistant role is, compared with the European Parliament's understanding,
I don’t think that this can kill the party,