the choice can be rendered on July 7 | EUROtoday

On the final day of the listening to within the attraction trial of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front, the court docket introduced that its resolution can be rendered on July 7, it introduced on Wednesday February 11. ” More [la décision était rendue] sooner, the better I was”Marine Le Pen told a few journalists at the end of the hearing.

A couple of minutes earlier, considered one of his legal professionals, Rodolphe Bosselut, had warned the Paris Court of Appeal: “Here she is on the cusp of a crucial election for the country. (…) But this presidential election makes the judgment you will have to make dizzying. »

While Marine Le Pen risks a sentence of ineligibility – the prosecution has requested four years in prison, including one year, and five years of ineligibility – which could prevent her from running in the 2027 presidential election, this date is eagerly awaited within the National Rally (RN) and among candidates for the election.

Marine Le Pen has already made it known that she will make her decision on a fourth candidacy as soon as the appeal sentence is announced, without waiting for any future decision from the Court of Cassation. She had warned that the candidate of the far-right party would be Jordan Bardella if he was unable to run.

If she wishes to apply, she must not be sentenced to a sentence going beyond a maximum of two years of ineligibility – the starting date being the first instance judgment of March 31, 2025. The presidential election should take place around April and May 2027. Ms.^me Le Pen, as well as the RN (at the time National Front) and ten executives, for having hired parliamentary assistants for the party’s MEPs, paid by European funds, but whose activity was only for the sole benefit of the flame movement.

The “central role” of Marine Le Pen famous by the prosecution

During their indictments, which took place on February 3, the two representatives of the prosecution highlighted the role played by the president of the RN group in the Assembly. “She signed the contracts. She can’t tell us she didn’t know. She was a lawyer and jurist by training”underlined one of the two general lawyers, Thierry Ramonatxo.

“She had a central role as an organizer. It was she who set the rules of internal functioning”he insisted. “Marine Le Pen was the instigator, following her father, of a system which allowed the party to embezzle 1.4 million euros”declared in particular the Advocate General, Stéphane Madoz-Blanchet.

In addition to Marine Le Pen, the representatives of the prosecution called for the conviction of the 11 other defendants, including the RN as a legal entity, guilty according to them of embezzlement for having set up a ” system “ between 2004 and 2016, “assumed and managed”and summarized as follows: “parliamentary assistants” MEPs from the far-right movement “worked for the party, but were paid by Europe”.