After the conviction of Marine Le Pen, Emmanuel Macron recalled that justice is “independent” and that “magistrates must be protected” | EUROtoday

Two days after the conviction of Marine Le Pen, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, spoke for the primary time, within the Council of Ministers, Wednesday April 2, the place he “Recalled” that justice is “Independent”that “Magistrates must be protected”in line with feedback reported by contributors within the France-Presse company and the Parisian.

The Head of State additionally mentioned that “All litigants are entitled to recourse”. Remarks confirmed by authorities spokesperson Sophie Primas, after the Council of Ministers.

As for “Disorder” expressed by François Bayrou after the conviction of M^me Le Pen for embezzlement of public funds within the case of parliamentary assistants of the National Front (which has turn into a nationwide rally, RN), Sophie Primas assured that Emmanuel Macron had not approached him within the Council of Ministers. She defended that this “Disorder” was expressed in regards to the rapid character of the penalty of ineligibility, and never on the penalty in itself, “Not on judgment, not on the decision of the Court, but on this mechanism decided and voted by Parliament (…) who presents [François Bayrou] curious consequences, since we cannot appeal on the totality of the sentence ”.

A decision on appeal by “summer season 2026”

While M^me Le Pen and the far -right party is called, the Paris court of appeal said Tuesday that it “Will study this file inside deadlines which ought to make it potential to decide in the summertime of 2026”. Wednesday, Sophie Prima refused to issue an opinion on the acceleration of the judicial calendar while qualifying this advance as ” modest “ And “Light”.

Questioned about the announcement by Eric Ciotti, boss of the UDR deputies to the Assembly and ally of the RN, of a table of a bill in June to ” DELETE “ Provisional execution, the government spokesperson said “Let the parliamentary initiative proceed”ensuring that the “Government will take a look at the phrases” but has “No precept on a textual content that doesn’t exist and whose writing just isn’t identified”.

At the offensive since the conviction of Marine Le Pen on Monday, the RN, for its part, announced the holding of a support for support on Sunday in the Invalides, in Paris. “It’s not a coup”,, assured on Wednesday, Jordan Bardella, the president of the RN, to journalists in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “It is on the contrary a very clear and very deep defense of the rule of law and French democracy. It is a mobilization in reality, not against, but for French democracy “he mentioned.