Dissolution of the Assembly: Marine Le Pen believes it would be in the "interest of the French people", despite her ineligibility

Hide this cumbersome dilemma that I cannot see. Faced with the prospect of François Bayrou's censure of the budget this fall, followed by a possible dissolution of the National Assembly, which would lead to new legislative elections, Marine Le Pen feigns serenity.

Although she could not run in the immediate future due to her immediate ineligibility sentence for misappropriation of public funds in the National Front parliamentary assistants case, the leader of the National Rally assured RTL that "it is not very serious."

"Quite honestly, there will be many more RN MPs. Perhaps we will even win that famous absolute majority we are aiming for. Whether I am there or not, it is in the interest of the French people that it happens," she declared.

As if the issue weren't sensitive. Within the far-right party, an elected official acknowledged last April: "We're not going to say that we no longer hold Bayrou's future in our hands, but frankly... If he falls, I think the president will dissolve the party in July. And then it's a disaster without Marine."

Since the conviction of its champion on March 31, the RN has not pressed the censorship button, which it had activated when Michel Barnier fell in December 2024.

The far-right party refused this week to join its voices with those of the left during the examination of a motion presented by the Socialists to denounce the absence of a bill allowing for the debate on raising the retirement age to 64, following the failure of the conclave between social partners launched by François Bayrou.

The National Rally (RN) insists it is awaiting the budget stage this fall. Marine Le Pen, whose appeal ruling could be delivered before the summer of 2026, will still face the threat of a dissolution of the National Assembly.

But the three-time presidential candidate does not seem to believe in such a scenario, "given the very low benefit that the President of the Republic could derive from it."