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The Red Cross will no longer deploy aid workers to the main asylum seeker registration in the Netherlands out of concern for their safety in the wake of multiple stabbings and other crimes in the area.

The Ter Apel asylum seeker registration and application centre, which serves as the principal venue for initiating asylum requests in the Netherlands, has become so dangerous that the Red Cross said “safety can no longer be guaranteed” for its employees seeking to provide aid to migrants at the location.

“This is a very drastic decision. We realise what this means for the people we help. But we have no other choice, because a small group of troublemakers is causing insecurity for both our aid workers and those seeking help. Therefore, a structural solution is now needed,” local Red Cross director Harm Goossens said.

The charity organisation said that in recent weeks, its workers, including emergency responders, had been “harassed by a small group of men” at the asylum reception centre. This made them feel that the site was unsafe and that the situation at Ter Apel could potentially get out of control.

Goossens said that there was a need for additional space to place the alleged asylum seekers, saying, “That is the only solution. We have been providing assistance for seven weeks now on the grounds in front of the registration centre. People are moving from place to place, spending hours on the grass, even in extreme weather conditions such as heat or heavy rain. This has to change.”

“I want to make an urgent appeal to all municipalities in the Netherlands: step forward and provide an emergency shelter location. Such a location offers breathing space for Ter Apel and ensures that people have a safe place during the day as well. We are talking about several dozen people per day, in a country with 18 million inhabitants,” he added.

According to the Telegraaf newspaper, the centre at Ter Apel has been so overcrowded since around mid-May that dozens of asylum seekers are forced to stay outside during the day and had previously relied on the Red Cross for food, water, and blankets.

An asylum seeker from Nigeria told the paper that he was unsure how people would survive without the aid organisation, but acknowledged that there were many problems with people at the centre.

“Every day there is a fight. People with severe mental problems are placed among ordinary people. When you say hello to someone, you don’t even know how they will react. And before you know it, there’s a fight,” he explained.

Indeed, just over the past week, there had been multiple stabbings at the asylum centre, including one before a planned visit from the Minister of Asylum Bart van den Brink, whose visit to the centre was delayed as a result.

A former security guard at the centre said that his stint working at Ter Apel changed his view on asylum seekers, saying that “the first week you work there, you feel sorry for the people walking around… After fourteen days, you start to scratch your head. And after about five or six weeks, you think: this doesn’t belong here.”

This sentiment was shared by Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders, who said that all Asylum Seekers’ Centres in the country should be shut down and deport all “asylum profiteers” back to their homelands. Wilders added that there should be “no whining about laws, treaties or judges, JUST DO IT! Necessity breaks the law!”

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During its state party congress in Saxony-Anhalt over the weekend, AfD unveiled its government program for the first hundred days after the September election, with polls suggesting that it could form a single-party government at the state level for the first time.

In line with voter expectations, migration is among the most important points that AfD wants to tackle head-on. The 100-day program includes “deportations from minute one,” and pledges that “all available options” will be used to deport as many illegal migrants as possible, something that both the CDU’s local and federal governments have failed to deliver on for years. 

AfD also promised to require unemployed asylum seekers to perform community service in exchange for access to social benefits, and to put an end to the widespread benefit fraud across the state.

“While other parties are only concerned with the AfD, we are addressing the real problems of this country and tackling them,” lead candidate and Saxony-Anhalt’s likely next Minister-President Ulrich Siegmund said.

Da ist es – unser 100 Tage Programm.
Während sich andere Parteien nur noch mit der AfD beschäftigen, kümmern wir uns um die wirklichen Probleme dieses Landes und packen es an!
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— Ulrich Siegmund (@UlrichSiegmund) July 11, 2026

Another major point is significantly cutting state funds for party foundations and NGOs, especially those that promote cultural and gender diversity. Likewise, the party wants to shift public schools’ focus on promoting the traditional family image in the future, in an effort to raise birth rates. The AfD government will also deploy security guards in schools with a history of violence, and plans to co-finance driver’s licenses to help young people get them more easily.

But even before these, the AfD pledged to quit the state from the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty as its “first official act” and create a “genuine pressure for reform” in the state’s public broadcasting to put an end to the federally administered “woke, anti-German, and manipulative propaganda.”

Furthermore, AfD wants to reduce the number of ministries to make governance more efficient, remove gender pronouns from state-employed authorities such as the police, and establish a COVID-19 investigation committee to uncover any fraud, neglect, corruption, and coverups linked to pandemic procurement and vaccination programs.

What’s more, the party will end Saxony-Anhalt’s image campaign #moderndenken (‘modern thinking’) that highlighted its innovative cultural heritage as the birthplace of the Bauhaus architectural school—and replace it with #deutschdenken to promote historical cultural heritage instead.

For the first time ever, the national conservative party does have a real chance of trying its hand at governance and implementing all these plans, using the state level as a trial run before it can eventually come to power at the federal level.

According to the latest INSA poll, conducted on the last week of June, AfD stands at 41%, close to being able to form a government alone, depending on how many parties get into the parliament. In contrast, the combined support of the current ruling coalition barely reaches 33%, spread across CDU (23%), SPD (6%), and FDP (4%).

As we wrote before, the mainstream parties are so afraid of AfD being elected in Saxony-Anhalt that they began making preparations to remove the state from federal intelligence sharing structures and thereby keep the local justice minister in the blind regarding federal investigations, like the one against AfD itself, which is likely illegal in the first place. 

Another plan to entirely ban the party across the country is also gaining traction, although such a move—banning Germany’s most popular party—might provoke unprecedented unrest, as it would rightly be seen as the end of German democracy.

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The University of Aberdeen was forced to distance itself from a staff member who posted online hoping former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe suffered “an extremely painful death” following news of her murder.

Heather Herbert, a web developer at the university, a transgender activist and a former Labour candidate, went on her Bluesky account to celebrate Widdecombe’s death, hoping she died in agony.

Herbert reacted on the reports of Widdecombe’s murder,  “Some good news for once.”

“I hope it was an extremely painful death.”

She added: “I hope she was handcuffed to the bed as she screamed in agony.”

The posts were made shortly after reports of the 78-year-old’s killing at her Dartmoor home, before police confirmed they were treating the death as murder.

The university issued a statement on Sunday saying the comments “are entirely the individual’s own and do not represent the views of the University of Aberdeen.”

The University is aware of social media posts made by a member of staff regarding the death of Ann Widdecombe and is reviewing this as a matter of priority.
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It confirmed the matter is being reviewed “as a matter of priority” through established staff processes.

“The University is aware of social media posts made by a member of staff regarding the death of Ann Widdecombe and is reviewing this as a matter of priority.

Police Scotland have stated no criminality was established in relation to the posts.

Gaudie, a student newspaper contacted Herbert on Saturday after she made her controversial posts.

She replied: “I don’t want to see anyone murdered, but I’m still glad she is dead.”

“I’m not a hypocrite. I posted that before the murder investigation was launched,” she continued.

“I’m a nobody. I have no power to do anything. Ann Widdecombe was able to and made the lives of ordinary people hell.”

She also added: “Nobody appears to care – I also celebrated the death of the leader of Iran.”

Herbert’s statements caused a lot of reactions, with many people demanding disciplinary action or dismissal.

One user wrote to Herbert: “I was never a fan of the woman and I certainly didn’t agree with her politics, but saying that about a fellow human is awful. There’s enough hatred in this world.”

In response, Herbert wrote: “I’m done with being nice to pieces of human garbage like her.”

Critics see her comments  as a disturbing normalisation of violent rhetoric against political opponents within parts of academia and the public sector.

Widdecombe, a prominent Eurosceptic and social conservative known for her forthright views on issues including immigration, wokery and traditional values, was a frequent target of left-wing criticism and intense personal attacks during her political career.

She was a veteran British politician, author, and media personality.

Widdecombe was violently murdered on July 8 at her home in Haytor, Dartmoor.

A 28-year-old man from Rotherham has been arrested on suspicion of the killing.

The investigation into her murder is being led by Counter Terrorism Police after “new information and evidence has come to light”.

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The British Channel Island of Jersey has legalized assisted suicide.

A law that allows adults who are terminally ill to commit suicide with the assistance of a doctor has been granted Royal Assent after the bill was approved by the island’s self-governing legislature in February.

The autonomous island under the British Crown, located 14 miles off the Cotentin Peninsula of northwest France in the English Channel, will become the first of the British Isles and the first British territory to legalize assisted suicide.

Minister of Health and Social Services Tom Binet expressed his delight over the Royal Assent being granted: “Our focus now is on continuing our work to get the service set up and running.”

The so-called “Assisted Dying Law” will come into force once it is registered at the Jersey Royal Court. It is expected to come into effect next year.

In November 2021, Jersey’s States Assembly decided that “assisted dying” should be allowed “in principle.” In May 2024, it voted in favor of drawing up laws for assisted suicide after the government announced its plan to introduce the practice. In February this year, the law was passed in a 32-to-16 vote.

Binet said at the time that “Jersey would have one of the safest and most transparent assisted dying laws in the world.”

The law requires someone who wishes to commit suicide to be at least 18 years old. They must have been a resident in Jersey for at least one year and have a “voluntary, settled and informed wish” to end their life. They must also be terminally ill with a life expectancy of a maximum of six months or 12 months if they suffer from a neurodegenerative disease.

While these measures appear restrictive, examples of other countries that have legalized assisted suicide or euthanasia, like Belgium, the Netherlands, or Canada, have shown that suchrestrictions can quickly be taken away, leading to children and those with mental illnesses opting for “assisted dying.”

The pro-life campaign group Care Not Killing expressed its “deep disappointment“ after the Royal Assent was granted to the Assisted Dying Law. The group argued the legislation violated the European Convention of Human Rights and “highlighted that the law fails to adequately test for coercion, duress or undue influence – particularly in the case of disabled people – by relying on an assessing doctor simply asking the individual if anyone has coerced them.”

Care Not Killing Representative Gordon Macdonald said:

This legislation will fundamentally alter health and palliative care on Jersey and put the lives of vulnerable people at risk, exactly as we have seen in those places that have introduced assisted suicide or euthanasia.

It fails on a number of fronts, including: lack of legal protections for doctors and nurses who do not want to be involved, protections for the elderly and disabled people at risk of being coerced, will see money taken out of palliative care and has been sold to the public as a way to end suffering.

Medical doctor and pro-life advocate Cajetan Niall wrote on X: “The last time doctors in Jersey were legally able to poison their patients, it was under Nazi occupation. A shameful day.”

While the Isle of Man became the first of the British Isles to pass a bill allowing assisted suicide in March 2025, it has not yet been granted Royal Assent, due to the lack of key safeguards.

As LifeSiteNews reported, in April, the attempt to pass assisted suicide in England and Wales failed because “The Terminally Ill Adults Bill” ran out of time before it could be voted on by the House of Lords before its deadline.

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BREAKING: Counter Terrorism Policing has taken the lead in the investigation into the case involving Ann Widdecombe, following what Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood described as the emergence of “new information.” The unexpected development marks a significant escalation in the investigation and raises fresh questions about the circumstances surrounding the case.

GB News’ Home and Security Editor Mark White breaks down what is known so far, explaining why the investigation has now been handed to specialist counter terrorism officers and what the change in leadership could mean for the direction of the inquiry. While many details remain unclear, the announcement is likely to intensify public and political scrutiny as investigators continue their work.

GB News’ Political Editor Christopher Hope also reacts to the news, describing the development as “absolutely huge.”

In a landmark ruling, the Paris criminal court convicted Souleymane D., a 25-year-old former after-school activity leader, of sexually assaulting a young girl aged between 3 and 5 years old. The verdict marks the first conviction of an activity leader in the ongoing Paris périscolaire scandal, which has involved multiple allegations of sexual and physical violence against children in municipal after-school programs and leisure centers.

The facts occurred between July 2023 and October 2025 at a leisure center on rue de l’Aqueduc in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, where Souleymane D. was responsible for the child. The girl reported the assaults to her parents. At trial, the accused denied the allegations, admitting only to “tickling” the child.

🇫🇷 JUST IN: A 25-year-old after-school activity leader has been convicted in Paris of sexually assaulting a child aged between 3 and 5.

Souleymane D. has just been sentenced 18 months in prison with a suspended sentence.

The family's lawyer described the verdict as "a relief,"… pic.twitter.com/kh6JEM0A5C

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) July 12, 2026

The court found Souleymane D. guilty of sexual assaults on a minor. It emphasized the coherence and consistency of the child’s testimony: she provided corroborative details separately to her father and mother, with no evidence of external influence from other proceedings.

In contrast, the court described the accused’s statements as “evolving” — he initially denied knowing the child, then any physical contact, before changing his account without a convincing explanation. Photographs recovered from his phone showed prohibited physical contacts with children, and the layout of the recreation area was deemed compatible with the alleged acts.

Souleymane D. has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, fully suspended and a 30-month probation. If he complies with his sentencing stipulations, he will not serve any prison time.

He has also been banned from professional activity involving contact with minors, is required to undergo psychological care, and will also be registered on the French sex offender registry (FIJAIS).

🇫🇷11 staff members are accused of sexual assaults and rapes at the Saint-Dominique nursery school, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France.

"Look at that school behind us, that’s the school where my 3-year-old daughter was raped by several after-school care staff members,"… pic.twitter.com/unvnP8SUjM

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) March 27, 2026

Souleymane D. has ten days to appeal.

This is the first conviction since the scandal gained prominence, following two recent acquittals of other former Paris animators accused of sexual assaults on minors. Those outcomes had sparked significant outrage among parents.

The victim’s family lawyer, Me Charles Héran, described the verdict as a relief: “We are glad that this child’s voice has been heard. This is a decision that changes the previous two [acquittals] and is therefore extremely encouraging for what follows… We are very satisfied with this decision. It’s what we were expecting. We sincerely hope that he will not appeal, that he will understand this decision, and that he will follow the care that has been imposed on him.”

Parents expressed mixed but largely critical sentiments toward the broader handling of such cases.

“I’m disgusted… despite everything, the children’s word is questioned,” said one parent.

Massive scandal involves 100 different schools

The case forms part of a larger scandal involving allegations of sexual and physical violence by municipal périscolaire after-school activity leaders in Paris public schools and leisure centers. The issue gained widespread attention in late 2025 and intensified in 2026, with investigations opened in more than 100 schools across all arrondissements.

The City of Paris has suspended 132 after-school activity leaders in 2026 alone, including 52 for suspicions of sexual or sexist violence. In addition, earlier data showed dozens of suspensions in 2025 for similar reasons.

Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire’s administration has responded with a €20 million action plan, including an independent commission of inquiry, improved reporting chains, and a citizens’ convention on the périscolaire organization and school programs.

Parents and #MeTooEcole organization members have repeatedly voiced frustration that children’s consistent accounts are often not deemed sufficient without additional material evidence, leading to perceptions of impunity.

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He had been arrested a few hours earlier, before being released. According to the indictment, he is alleged to have attacked a woman he did not know on the Milan underground that afternoon and injured her in the face with a knife.This is the sequence of events involving Mohammed Saidi, the 27-year-old man who was arrested after the attack on a young woman at Duomo station. According to the reconstruction by the newspaper Corriere della Sera, the young man had already been arrested by the police the previous night for theft and for damaging several parked cars. Although a judge confirmed his arrest, he was subsequently released. A few hours later, the attack on the subway allegedly took place.

Mohammed Saidi, a 27-year-old Algerian national who is staying in Italy without valid residency status, is now accused of having injured the face of a 23-year-old woman of Moroccan origin with a blade. After his initial arrest and subsequent release, the young man is said, according to the first findings of the local police investigation, to have wandered aimlessly through the city before reaching the center of Milan.

It is alleged that he encountered the young woman on the platform of Underground Line 3. The incident took place in the afternoon on the platform at Duomo station in full view of dozens of people. According to investigators, the young woman was with friends when the man is said to have asked her why she was staring at him. She is said to have denied looking at him, but the exchange is said to have quickly escalated. According to investigators, the 27-year-old is said to have shouted: “Why are you staring at me like that? I’m a man and I’m a Muslim,” before punching her and then stabbing her in the face with a knife. Witnesses immediately raised the alarm, enabling the police to intervene quickly.

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Two years after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Emmanuel Macron was in Damascus to meet the new strongman, the former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has never been a man of peace but rather the polished face of the most violent Islamism – the one that disfigured Syria under the banners of jihad and massacred Christians, Druze, and Alawites in collusion with Turkish and Qatari protectors.

The imposing door of the Great Umayyad Mosque opened with a theatrical creak. Macron and his host, al-Sharaa, removed their shoes and entered, followed by the delegations. Built 1,300 years ago on the site of a church, the mosque houses the relics of St. John the Baptist and the tomb of Saladin. Beneath Byzantine-era frescoes, the two signed energy and trade agreements.

Two devices meanwhile exploded near the Four Seasons Hotel where the French president had stayed. “Macron is safe,” the Élysée immediately reassured.

It is not a travel incident, but the background noise of a Middle East that has never stopped being itself. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!

Macron embodies progressivism in sunglasses, believing he can tame radical Islam with symbolic gestures and energy subcontracts. But the Umayyad mosque, built on the ruins of a church, reminds him that Islamic conquest is never just a metaphor and that every Islamic conquest replaces rather than coexists.

France, which invented raison d’État, seems to have replaced it with raison du jour – changeable as alliances of convenience – and raison du ventre.

A few weeks ago, the same Macron who shakes blood-soaked hands in Damascus had ordered the Paris military fair to obscure the Israeli pavilion. Will the same weapons that protect Macron’s plane – taking him first to the NATO summit in Ankara and then safely back to Paris – be the ones used?

Meanwhile, Merz’s Germany continued to install Israeli anti-missile batteries on its own territory, and America was considering moving its Gulf bases – targeted by Iran – to Israel.

Merz knows that next time the Iranians will aim their missiles at Europe; America relies on the only true Western outpost in the Middle East, a region where bombs explode near the hotels of visiting European presidents.

Without a moral and material awakening, Europe will become what it already accepts itself as being: a province of Islamism that has learned to dress it up with Hermès ties.

At this point, I prefer one Javier Milei to ten Macrons – Milei is the Argentine president who recently said:

“Let us keep this firmly in mind: Israel is the bulwark of the West. The fight against Israel – if Israel falls – will then reach the West”.

Those who do not defend their outposts today will have to defend their capitals tomorrow.

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An Afghan migrant who raped a schoolgirl is set to be released from jail early and let loose on Britain’s streets under Labour’s release scheme.

Parmeet Khurana was jailed for nine years in 2022 for raping the 17-year-old victim in 2021 and perverting the course of justice.

He lived in Austria before arriving in the UK – but now Britain is locked in a battle with Austria’s top officials to deport the sex offender.

Labour promised the victim their attempt to remove her attacker from the UK was being treated as their “highest priority” – but the vow appears to have fallen through.

As a result, the victim’s mother furiously raged against her daughter’s attacker being allowed to run rampant on Britain’s streets.

“It seems utterly unacceptable that a child rapist should be allowed early release under any circumstances,” she told The Sun.

“It says to victims that they are not important, that their life-long legacy of fear and trauma does not matter.

“And it allows potentially dangerous offenders back onto our streets before they should be.”

She added the release of guilty perpetrators was a “travesty of justice”, especially given it is “so difficult” to charge a defendant in a rape case.

Current legislation allows rapists to be considered for release as soon as they serve two-thirds of their sentence.

But Labour is pursuing new legislation which will allow sex offenders, including paedophiles and rapists, to run free having only fulfilled half their sentence.

Up to 6,000 criminals convicted of manslaughter, rape and sexual assault could be released early as part of Labour’s prison scheme.

The first group of 700 prisoners will be released in September, with a similar number of criminals freed for each of the next nine months in a staggered release schedule.

The victim was assured by the Government that changes were being made with the “aim of improving the effectiveness of sentencing and better managing offenders in the community”.

The letter added that the information “may be difficult” for the victim and added they recognised the “lasting impact the offence may have had on you”.

Khurana is being freed four years after his conviction, having only served around 45 per cent of his prison term, thanks to Labour’s reforms.

The UK Borders Act 2007 demands a Deportation Order after the conviction of a foreign national and has been handed a jail sentence for 12 months or more.

Back in March of last year, former Minister for Border Security and Asylum, Dame Angela Eagle, told the family the Home Office was continuing to pursue Khurana’s deportation.

It read: “I can confirm that the Home Office continues to pursue PK’s deportation from the UK, however his is a complex case that requires us to liaise with the Austrian authorities regarding his status in Austria prior to his arrival in the UK, and this action is ongoing.”

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “Public safety and supporting victims is our top priority.

“Offenders who a judge has deemed the most dangerous are automatically blocked from early release, and prisoners who behave badly while behind bars face being locked up for longer.

“Anyone who is released faces tough rules such as restrictions on their movements, tagging, being banned from attending public events, pubs and clubs, backed by our record £700million investment into probation and 1,300 extra probation officers.”

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National Rally leader Marine Le Pen would win next year’s French presidential election against any opponent, according to a survey conducted after it was revealed this week that she would be eligible to campaign to replace Emmanuel Macron in the Élysée Palace.

This week, the Paris Court of Appeals reduced the sentence against three-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen over alleged misuse of EU Parliament funds. Critically, the court cut the time barring her from standing in any European election to allow for the National Rally (RN) leader to stand in the French presidential election next April.

A cloud still hangs over her candidacy, with the court sentencing her to a three-year prison sentence, two years of which were suspended and one year of which is intended to be served under house arrest with an electronic ankle monitor. However, the ruling allowed for Le Pen to appeal further to the Court of Cassation, the supreme court in such cases, meaning that her innocence is once again presumed and she will not have to serve any aspect of the sentence until the appeal is completed.

Although her opponents have already sought to exploit the appellate court conviction, it does not appear that voters view the issue as critical, with a survey conducted by Ifop finding that Le Pen stands head and shoulders above her top competitors in both rounds of the two-round system, Le Journal du Dimanche reported.

Regardless of whether the centrist Macron bloc is represented by former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal or by Mayor of Le Havre Édouard Philippe, Le Pen would win the first round of voting with 36 per cent. If Attal were the primary establishment candidate, he would secure only 15 per cent of the vote, while Philippe would fare slightly better at 19 per cent.

While the two-round system has traditionally enabled neo-liberal forces to sideline populist candidates, including Le Pen on multiple occasions, with no transcendent figure such as Emmanuel Macron to unite the left and centrist wings, it appears the system may play into the National Rally’s hand.

According to the survey, the RN leader would defeat Philippe by 54 to 46 per cent, Attal by 55 to 45 per cent, and against far-left La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI) leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon by 70 per cent to 30 per cent.

The poll found that against either Philippe or Attal, Le Pen would benefit from other right-wing voters coming to her cause, with 46 per cent or 53 per cent of Les Républicains voters rallying to her side, respectively. This rises to 90 per cent of fellow right-wing voters in the unlikely event of Mélenchon reaching the second round.

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In an interview over the weekend with Le JDD, Le Pen said: “From now on, I am campaigning to convince the French, to talk to them about their lives, their security, their purchasing power, the rebirth of the country. My opponents would like this campaign to be judicial. I want it to be democratic, and I will not let anyone confiscate this presidential election from the French.”

Despite some arguing that the National Rally would fare better if Le Pen were banned from running, given the rising popularity of her 30-year-old deputy Jordan Bardella, the RN leaders put on a unified front, pitching themselves as a joint ticket.

“There is complete clarity between Jordan and me on this subject. What we say publicly, we say to each other privately. It has always been clear that if I could run for the presidential election, I would be the natural candidate of our camp,” Le Pen said. “And we will present to the French this duo in which I deeply believe: a clear, efficient, complementary, solid, and balanced duo. That is our strength. I even believe that today, we are in the best position to approach this presidential election, precisely because, after the Court of Appeal’s decision, this duo is not only maintained but strengthened.”

Bardella expressed similar sentiments in an interview with Le Figaro, saying that he “entered politics out of duty, not personal ambition.”

“It has always been agreed that if Marine Le Pen runs for the presidential election in 2027, she will find my loyalty, help, and support by her side. Today, the fate of France rests in her hands. It is up to me to help her win. I will devote all my energy to her victory,” he said.

Bardella explained that, as Le Pen would look to “preside” over France as its president, while he would “govern” the country as prime minister, the two would “offer the nation the renaissance it awaits.”

Part of this strategy, Bardella said, would be for him to form a government of “national unity” that brings members of other parties into the fold to help bring about a national revival. This would start with Éric Ciotti, the former leader of Les Républicains, who formed the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) party after breaking from his old party to support Le Pen in 2024.

“The door will always be open. Our first ambition will be to establish a national unity government that will not be composed exclusively of executives or parliamentarians from the RN. We have already built this new political architecture hand in hand with our allies from the UDR of Éric Ciotti. We will continue to do so,” Bardella said.

The French populist leader also stressed that there must be an alliance between the “patriotic elite” in Paris and the working and middle classes throughout the country to build a national base “to recreate the conditions for French unity and the rebirth of our nation.”

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