The National gathering, who is heavily indebted and accumulating losses, has informed four workers of their upcoming redundancy and has not replaced two early retirements, the party said, confirming information from Figaro .
Four people from the communication service received their invitation to a preliminary interview for dismissal ” economic “, the party leadership having “Decided to outsource this service”, according to RN. Two other employees have been placed on early retirement and will not be replaced.
The party has already fired this summer, according to Le Figaro. The RN is also looking to relocate its headquarters, located at Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), to get closer to the center of Paris but also to save money with a smaller room.
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A new loss in 2018 of 2.4 million euros
The party, chaired since 2011 by Marine Le Pen, suffered a further loss in 2018 of 2.4 million euros, according to the latest published accounts of the party.
Personnel costs (salaries and social security contributions) notably represented 3.5 million euros in 2018, for 53 employees. Debt at the end of 2018 reached 24.4 million euros, of which 15 million matured in less than one year. In 2020, the RN received around 5.5 million euros in public funding.
But the RN had to repay 4.4 million euros from this aid to the Cotelec micro-party of the co-founder of the FN, Jean-Marie Le Pen, loan taken out for the 2017 presidential campaign.
He then found in June a rescheduling agreement with his Russian creditor, who was suing him for the non-repayment of a loan, taken in 2014, of approximately nine million euros.
To finance itself, the party has already launched several loans from its activists. He still has to find 30 million euros for his next electoral campaigns (departmental, regional, presidential, legislative), according to his treasurer Wallerand de Saint-Just, who deplores that the banks refuse to lend him money.
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