Marine Le Pen said on Sunday that she had a « divergence majeure » with the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau on the latter’s declarations regarding the rule of law, which must not be “disputed” according to the head of the National Rally deputies.
“I must express a major difference with our Minister of the Interior. It is not the rule of law as such that must be contested, it is quite the opposite. We are the guarantors of it, in the sense given to it by the most brilliant European philosophers of past centuries”launched the three-time candidate for the presidential election during a meeting in Nice.
She was reacting to the remarks of the Minister of the Interior in the JDD. “The rule of law is not intangible or sacred”affirmed Bruno Retailleau (LR), adding that “the source of the rule of law is democracy, it is the sovereign people”. Statements which led to strong criticism on the left and in the presidential camp, before the tenant of Beauvau regretted that his words had been “instrumentalized by false debates”.
“The rule of law is the submission of all to democratically defined rules, and it is one of the immense conquests of European civilization”replied Marine Le Pen. “What is questionable, on the other hand, is the way in which they have overturned this notion to make it an instrument of submission of people who would no longer have the democratic freedom to develop the law. We will never accept this”continued the leader of the RN deputies.