suspended jail sentence and fast ineligibility for the mayor of Orange, Yann Bompard | EUROtoday

The electoral marketing campaign of the far-right mayor of Orange (Vaucluse), Yann Bompard, is nipped within the bud. The outgoing mayor had not but registered his candidacy however didn’t disguise his intentions. Justice determined in any other case.

Seven weeks earlier than the primary spherical of the municipal elections, the Marseille felony courtroom sentenced the elected official, Monday January 26, to eighteen months in jail and a fantastic of 40,000 euros for concealment of embezzlement of public funds. He additionally selected the provisional execution of the obligatory further penalty of ineligibility which he set at 5 years. This fast ineligibility, even within the occasion of an attraction, causes Yann Bompard to lose his seats as departmental councilor of Vaucluse, mayor of Orange and president of the intercommunality of Pays d’Orange en Provence.

The elected official was absent when the judgment was pronounced, solely represented by his lawyer, in contrast to Marie-France Lorho, deputy (National Rally, RN) of the 4^e constituency of Vaucluse, sentenced on this similar case to eighteen months suspended jail sentence, a fantastic of 10,000 euros and a right away ineligibility measure of 5 years. She will be unable to seem, as had been introduced, in second place on the record that the RN presents to Orange, led by a dissident from nearly all of Yann Bompard.

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