questions the day after the requisitions towards Marine Le Pen | EUROtoday

Four years in jail, three of that are suspended, a 100,000 euro wonderful and 5 years of ineligibility: the advocates common of the Paris Court of Appeal requested, towards Marine Le Pen, on Tuesday February 3, a sentence hardly extra lenient than that imposed on March 31, 2025 by the Paris prison courtroom, within the case of the European parliamentary assistants of the National Front. The Court of Appeal will ship its judgment “before summer”. Overview of the authorized and political questions posed by this new deadline.

When will Marine Le Pen determine her political future?

For a very long time, Marine Le Pen swore that she would exhaust all of the avenues of attraction at her disposal to result in her “innocence”. Her judicial agenda would enable her to take action earlier than the 2027 presidential election. Under the populist and anti-judge strain deployed by her camp on March 31, 2025, the day of the judgment of the Paris prison courtroom, the chief of the French far proper benefited from a uncommon acceleration of her timetable: the subsequent day, the courtroom of attraction undertook to render a call “in the summer of 2026” ; in the beginning of January, the primary president of the Court of Cassation, Christophe Soulard, warned that his jurisdiction, within the occasion of an attraction, “will organize itself to, as far as possible, judge the case fairly quickly”earlier than the presidential election. But M^me Le Pen is now not able to danger her candidacy in entrance of the judges.

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