Marine Le Pen wrote to President Emmanuel Macron to "
alert
" him to the difficulties of financing the presidential campaign and ask Parliament to "
open
" new funding possibilities.
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"A
good number of potential candidates for the presidential election, some representing important currents of thought, find themselves confronted with a virtual impossibility of finding financing
" from the banks, writes the candidate for the Elysee in a letter to the president of the Republic dated September 2, obtained Thursday by AFP after its publication by the weekly Challenges.
She deplores the absence of a "bank for democracy"
"
The possibilities of financing electoral campaigns have been singularly reduced, so the candidates can no longer even call on loans from citizens to finance their presidential campaign
", notes Marine Le Pen.
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“
The counterpart was the creation of a bank for democracy
”, an idea supported by the High Commissioner for Planning and Emmanuel Macron's ally, François Bayrou, which “did
not see the light of day, but the restrictions are , still in force,
”she laments.
In this case since a modification in 2001 of the law of 1962, a presidential candidate cannot contract a loan from an individual, according to the CNCCFP (campaign accounts commission).
And since the law “
for confidence in political life
” of 2017, he cannot borrow money from non-European banks, nor from private companies, but can borrow from political parties.
The RN is heavily in debt
To remedy these difficulties, Marine Le Pen asks Emmanuel Macron to "
seize Parliament very quickly in order to open up new funding possibilities for electoral campaigns and thus allow a healthy democratic debate
".
The party of Marine Le Pen, the National Rally, very indebted, has difficulty in obtaining financing from the banks. For the 2017 presidential campaign, he notably used a Russian loan of 9 million euros contracted in 2014, which he is still in the process of repaying. The party then repays these sums from the candidate.
