Marine Le Pen often praises volunteering. "This miracle of political commitment (...) that drives men and women to hand out leaflets, to sacrifice their leisure time," said the leader of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) parliamentary group in the Assemblée Nationale on May 1. In early April, during a meeting called in Paris after her sentencing in the case concerning her party's fake assistant jobs at the European Parliament, she again lauded her "high view" of politics: "Like many party members and elected representatives from every side, we see political commitment as a sort of calling."

Although the three-time presidential candidate definitively gave up the presidency of the RN in 2022, she did not become just another party member. She was certainly not an unpaid volunteer. In 2022 and 2023, Le Pen received a net sum of €60,000 from the far-right party – exactly the same amount she had been paid in the previous six years as president of the RN.

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