An appointment before the courts that conditions his political future. Condemned at 5 years of inelegability with immediate application On March 31, as part of the trial of attendees of European deputies, Marine Le Pen carefully prepares the organization of his second trial. It will be carried out in appeal at the beginning of next year with the hope of a slightest planned trial “before the summer of 2026”.
Two teams are working on their new defense strategy. On the one hand, there are faithful like his lawyer Rodolphe Bosselut, already present the past fall with the deputy of Pas-de-Calais, the former strength of the RN Walland de Saint-Just or the lawyer David Dassa, who defended the party in the first instance.
New faces
Behind the scene, there is also a second team that “works more in the shade,” explains a party strategist with BFMTV.
“These are lawyers, specialists, former judges who found the judicial decision and their somewhat baroque justification. These are people who proposed their help spontaneously and that we have contacted,” said this elected official.
Which feeds Marine Le Pen’s defense. The party had explained during his trial that judging the real reality of the work of a parliamentary assistant would have returned to judge the mandate of an elected official, contraveting the separation of powers.
A defense that has not convinced at all
Another chosen defense axis: indicates the vagueness of the internal regulations of the European Parliament to define the missions of a parliamentary employee. And it is a pity if this text specifies, for example, although it is supposed to live in Brussels, which was not the case of most attendees in the defendant’s bank.
The strategy has not convinced judges at all. The president of the deputies of RN was recognized guilty of embezzlement of public funds. The court estimated that the total damage was 2.9 million euros, “taking charge of the European Parliament of people who really worked for the” distant part. “
Proof that the movement is aware that you will probably have to find new ideas to convince judges: the presence of new lawyers in the appeal. “We will have the expansion and renewal,” he insists on a party member, while guaranteeing that Marine Le Pen continues to be represented by his lawyer Rodolphe Bosselut.
“She lives very bad that we are buried”
What to restore morality to the chosen Pas De-Calais? He spent a month in April, following his conviction, “complicated” acknowledges one of his relatives. But today, “it’s better,” says this intimate.
“He saw very bad that he is buried while he is alive, he wants him to want to be publicly buried, she is exasperated for that,” judges for its part of the group.
With a particularly severe sentence in the first instance AND The severity of the alleged factsThe hypothesis of maintaining his candidacy in the race for the Elysée is not the most likely.
The bare bardel hypothesis
Therefore, the observation pushed Jordan Bardella to accelerate, the first half word and then putting his feet on the plate. If Marine Le Pen is “prevented”, I will be “his candidate” in 2027 explained to Parisian In April, before being cut by Marine Le Pen.
“It is obvious that if I spent tomorrow under a truck, Jordan Bardella would be the person who would have a vocation to replace me,” summarized the president of the deputies of RN a few days later, obviously annoyed, before chaining several moving directed to his lieutenant.
But to calm down, many in the RN want to believe in a more indulgent trial in the second instance that would go through an inegability penalty but without applying immediate.
The hope of a less severe trial
In which case, in the case of an appeal, most likely, this conviction would not apply before the final sentence. Given the usual deadlines for justice, his passage before the Court of Cassation will not take place at least before one year.
Therefore, Marine Le Pen could freely reach the presidential elections. But it would still be to convince the French that it is still legitimate to present themselves, she, who has done so for years of the moralization of political life. Your battle horse.
Another option: be sentenced to an immediate inelegability judgment but for a much lower duration than the initially pronounced 5 years. If the magistrates decided, for example, not to condemn Marine Le Pen to a year of inelegability with an immediate request, she would have already fulfilled her judgment in a reroactive manner and could appear to the presidential elections.
“Guardian angel”
Load voters to trust him despite this conviction.
“If I felt that for this reason or another, your candidacy would be an obstacle to our victory, I think it could retire,” said a deputy.
“I don’t know exactly how, but I think she will be a candidate. At the end of the ends, we will be done. We have a guardian angel, we always manage to get out of bad situations,” he wants to believe a close to Marine Le Pen.
Source: BFM TV
