This Monday, the French justice will issue a sentence against Marine Le Pen and another 24 members of National regrouping For diverting to your party, the funds of the European Union assigned to the payment of parliamentary advisors. The leader of the French extreme party faces five years in prison, three of them in suspense, five years of disqualification with immediate compliance Already a fine of 300,000 euros. A sentence that It would disqualify the leader of the extreme right for the next presidential elections of 2027, in which many already consider it as the favorite.
This Monday much of France It wakes up pending a decision that local media have described as “politically explosive”, and that could mark the history of the country. In the rows of the party they contain their breath. They know that much of the national regrouping electorate is committed to Marine Le Pen: “Marine is Rn. Jordan Bardella is still very young to appear to the presidency,” said a neighbor of the town of Henin Beaumont on Monday, where the leader was chosen as a deputy in 2017.
However, shortly before this sentence, the leader said for the first time in BFMTV that her successor at the head of the party has the capacity to be president of the Republic. “
Ten years of research
After ten years of investigation, this Monday, Judge Bénédicte de Perthuis will begin reading the sentence against 25 national regrouping members. If justice accepts the prosecutor’s request, Le Pen would be out of play immediately, accused of “Malversation of public funds and complicity.”
Between 2004 and 2016, the party led by Le Pen allegedly diverted more than 3 million euros in salaries for false parliamentary attendees, who ended up working directly for the interests of the extreme right -wing formation. Something forbidden in the statutes of the European Parliament. During the trial, the Prosecutor’s Office presented irrefutable evidence of the plot warned by national regrouping, such as emails or the registration of entries and exits of the alleged attendees of the headquarters of the party in Paris, the same days and the same time that they allegedly should have been working in Brussels.
On the table, there is a second option: disqualification with the possibility of suspending the penalty until the Superior Court is pronounced. This other possibility would give the head of the extreme right the long Triple candidate (2012, 2017 and 2022) At the head of the race he made the Elysee Palace. In the last two presidential, the leader arrived on the second round, and in the legislative elections last July he obtained near 11 million votes. “His only objective is to prevent me from being the candidate of my group in the presidential elections. You have to be deaf and blind to not see it,” Le Pen lamented in front of the court at the last hearing.
The possible “electoral decapitation” of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter would not only cause a turning point in the party itself, but many already point to a true political earthquake. Since, it would also affect some possible early legislative elections, In case Emmanuel Macron decided to dissolve next June the National Assembly for the second time. In that case, Marine could not appear, although she could stay in her parliamentary seat until her period ends.
In addition, the penalty penalty goes beyond the simple prohibition of competing in elections. Article 131-26 of the Criminal Code dictates that “the prohibition of the right of vote or inelegability entails the prohibition or inability to exercise a public function.”
The Constitutional Council accepts the “immediate disqualification”
On March 28, the Constitutional Council of France approved a reform of law, in which politicians They can be disabled immediately. A decision that according to the Constitutional would not affect the Magna Carta, and that was born after the case against the elected official of Mahoran, Rachadi Saindou, condemned last June for embezzlement of public funds, concealment and illegal taking interest.
According to the agency, “in the Article 3 of the Constitution, The parliamentarians participate in the exercise of national sovereignty and, in the terms of the first paragraph of article 24, the laws vote and supervise the action of the government. “Therefore, the reform establishes that the politicians declared guilty of certain crimes can be disabled automatically, without the need for additional procedures and without violating their fundamental rights.
