“For her appeal trial, Marine Le Pen chose to fight differently” | EUROtoday

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HAS As the opening of her attraction trial approaches, Tuesday January 13, Marine Le Pen modified her tone. Unusual, virtually suspicious, his current silence within the affair of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front (FN) contrasts with the virulence of his reactions the day after his conviction.

Should we see this as an indication of resignation after the rejection of all his appeals earlier than the executive and European courts? From abnegation within the face of refusals to refer its precedence questions of constitutionality to the Constitutional Council? We do not assume so. The chief of the deputies of the National Rally [RN, nouveau nom du FN depuis 2018] didn’t lay down his arms. According to statements made by one in all her working mates to Franceinfo, she reasonably made the selection, to say the least smart, to combat in another way. Previously informal, the one who took the time, this time, to “dissect” the judgment, could have understood that the sentence of ineligibility pronounced by the courtroom on March 31, 2025 was not based mostly solely on the seriousness of the information.

His conviction and the actual fact, extra exactly, that his five-year ineligibility was declared instantly relevant can be defined – and the judgment says this very explicitly – by the “defense system” which the particular person involved has not parted with for ten years. Coherent, tenacious, methodical, the technique that she has tirelessly adopted for the reason that denunciation of the information has been extraordinarily efficient… towards her. Despite herself, the previous chief of the occasion offered the judges with greater than sufficient info for them to concern that, within the presidential race – worse nonetheless, as soon as elected to the supreme workplace – she would as soon as once more interact in fraudulent use of public funds. This statement performed a decisive function within the determination to stop him from making use of immediately.

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