Penelope Fillon resigns from the Solesmes municipal council | EUROtoday
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EShe will now not sit on the Solesmes municipal council. Penelope Fillon leaves her place as municipal councilor in Sarthe, after the Court of Cassation declared her responsible together with her husband François Fillon within the fictitious jobs affair. She submitted her resignation to Mayor Pascal Lelièvre on Thursday April 25, he declared to Free Maine.
The councilor considers this determination regrettable. “I am losing a very invested member in the municipal council and in the various commissions on which she sat. She was very present, participating in village life. The residents will regret it,” confides the city’s chief Justice of the Peace to France Bleu.
No one will succeed Penelope Fillon on the municipal council, which is able to thus improve from fifteen to 14 elected officers from May 22.
Two years of ineligibility
Penelope Fillon had been elected in her metropolis since 2014. She succeeded her husband, a former municipal councilor. She was judged once more, final Wednesday April 24, with François Fillon within the fictitious jobs affair, began in the course of the presidential marketing campaign in 2017, and nicknamed “Penelopegate”. The couple was discovered definitively responsible by the Court of Cassation.
READ ALSO Fillon case: learn how to decipher the choice of the Court of CassationA brand new trial will happen and the Paris Court of Appeal must rule once more on the sentences handed down in opposition to the previous Sarthe deputy. The sentences handed down in opposition to Penelope Fillon are, nevertheless, remaining. She was sentenced to 2 years' suspended imprisonment, a tremendous of 375,000 euros and two years of ineligibility.
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