On July 9, the extreme right-wing French National Unity party (formerly the National Front) will not be able to engage in political activity, and by August it may cease to exist because of the arrest of two million euros of state subsidies, party leader Marin Le Pen said.. This is reported by L'Echo.

On July 8, the court imposed a provisional arrest of 2 million euros, which the party was to receive from the state treasury as mandatory grants. The decision to arrest was taken in connection with the investigation of the case, according to which the party is suspected of squandering the money of the European Parliament to create fictitious posts. Le Pen told BFMTV that this decision violates the principle of presumption of innocence and is in fact an attempt to "kill the first opposition party of France", as well as "an attempt on democracy".

The judges arrested the advance that the party was to receive in 2018, the statement said on the website of the "National Association". The party recalled that a year it is worth 4.5 million euros from the state and that such subsidies are received by all parties regardless of what they do. The party considers this decision to be political and unreasonable.

Heads of the "National Front" accused of abusing the resources of the European Parliament in the summer of 2017. According to the investigation, Le Pen and her associates spent this money on salaries to assistants, but at the same time they performed work that had no relation to the European Parliament.

The party "National Front" in 1972 created the father of Marin Le Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen. She replaced him as chairman of the party in early 2011, and in 2015, expelled his father from the party because of ideological differences.

In 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen went to the second round of the presidential elections in France, but lost to Jacques Chirac. In 2017, his daughter went to the second round and lost to Emmanuel Macron. From July 1, 2018, the "National Front" changed its name to "National Association". Now the party has eight seats in the parliament.