Paris (France) (AFP) – Jordan Bardella on Friday accused La France Insoumise of "totalitarian temptation" by wanting to "shut down" the CNews channel and "prevent" the National Rally from expressing itself.

Published on: 06/11/2026 - 22:56

“We have a political movement which, it’s true, can qualify for the second round of the presidential election and which does not like France,” said the head of the RN on the CNews channel.

“When we want to close a television channel like CNews, we are inhabited by a totalitarian temptation. When, like the mayor of Saint-Denis, we want to prevent the National Rally from being able to express itself, we are seized by a totalitarian temptation,” he added.

After the racist attack in Trappes (Yvelines), Bally Bagayoko called for the RN to be banned from speaking during the presidential campaign "from the moment they make racist comments".

MPs must decide in the coming days whether or not to organize a debate before the National Assembly after a successful petition demanding the closure of the CNews channel.

The petition collected more than 950,000 signatures on Friday evening. The LFI parliamentary group is on the front line in this process.

Jordan Bardella sees it as "an accusatory frenzy" which "translates directly into the call to close a channel representing French people who do not think like Jean-Luc Mélenchon".

If Marine Le Pen is elected president in May 2027 and he becomes her Prime Minister, Jordan Bardella also specified that he would ask "the European Union to include antifa militias and all ultra-left organizations on the list of terrorist organizations."

The ultra-left is accused of having fueled the violence on the sidelines of the demonstrations against the high cost of living on October 17.

She is also implicated in the death of far-right activist Quentin Deranque in February in Lyon.

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