the danger of computerized ineligibility for Marine Le Pen | EUROtoday

This time, Marine Le Pen was actually scared. The three-time candidate for the presidential election found, Wednesday November 7 – concurrently her legal professionals – that, if she was convicted on the trial of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front (FN) within the European Parliament, she would essentially turn into ineligible for 5 years, until there’s a specifically reasoned resolution by the court docket. And she is properly conscious {that a} conviction, whereas the proceedings will likely be closed on Tuesday November 12, has turn into very possible all through the listening to. The judgment will happen originally of 2025.

“This automaticity, which I consider questionable, could have extremely serious consequences, worried the National Rally (RN, ex-FN) MP from Pas-de-Calais. Not just for me, but for 13 million voters. » The candidate had in fact obtained, in the 2022 presidential election, 41.45% of the votes cast, or 13,288,686 votes. Shock among his lawyers, who were only preparing to fight against an extension of prevention, that is to say of the period when the embezzlement of public funds took place. Jean-Marie Le Pen, as then president of the National Front, is legally responsible for these embezzlements from 2004; Marine Le Pen, who then took over as head of the party, was from 2011 to 2016 – the case of her father, 96 years old, will theoretically have to be examined later, but, given his state of health, will not be probably never.

The problem therefore primarily concerns Marine Le Pen. However, the prosecutors, Nicolas Barret and Louise Neyton, observed, in the first days of the hearing, that the parliamentary assistant contracts were in reality only closed when the European Parliament had regularized the funds, which took a little time. Louise Neyton produced a table on Wednesday which summarizes the official contract closing date. “The period is sometimes extended by three years, without any positive act by the defendants”was indignant Rodolphe Bosselut, Marine Le Pen’s lawyer, who had not considered it and who believes with all his colleagues that the unexpected extension of prevention vigorously violates the rights of the protection.

Wind of revolt

Above all, it has the consequence, as famous The Chained Duck of October 23, to position the defendants underneath the legislation of September 15, 2017 “for confidence in political life”, which imposes obligatory ineligibility sentences within the occasion of conviction. Marine Le Pen instantly declared that she wouldn’t reply questions past 2016, the deadline for which she was referred to court docket.

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