"Prosecutors said they are investigating allegations of illegal financing of longtime party leader Marine Le Pen’s 2022 presidential bid, and the party’s European Parliament and French parliamentary campaigns. The National Rally, which seeks to sharply curtail migration and restrict Muslims’ rights, is the biggest single party in France’s lower house of parliament.

Jordan Bardella, 29, who took over the presidency of the popular party in 2022, said that police seized “all files relating to the party’s recent regional, presidential, legislative, and European campaigns — in other words, all of its electoral activity"

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      That’s honestly not going to deter their voters in France. Cutting the head of the hydra doesn’t seem to do much except getting two to grow in its place. They’ve got a new candidate poised and ready (probably even more incompetent, if that’s even possible) that polls just fine.