Marine Le Pen is still paid as president of the National Rally (RN) while the position has been occupied since September by the former number two of the party Jordan Bardella, who assumes this function “voluntarily”, said the latter on Monday, with our colleagues from BFMTV.
“Everyone understands that, in the case of the trips that she (Marine Le Pen) is required to make in the context of electoral campaigns, in the context of the people she is required to meet, she may have an envelope of expenses for his lunches, for his travels, ”said the MEP and acting president of the RN.
“It is not remuneration, it is compensation”, a “lump sum reimbursement of expenses”, as a “leading actress of the movement”, he specified.
In 2017, Marine Le Pen told the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) that her “monthly salary” as president of the National Front (now National Rally) had gone “from 3,000 euros to 5,000 euros to from July 2017.
The function of president of the FN that Marine Le Pen has held since 2011 has only been remunerated since 2014. Marine Le Pen also receives a remuneration of approximately 7,240 euros gross as a deputy for Pas-de-Calais.