Waiting for the judgment of appeal of Marine Le Pen in the case of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front, the members of the leader of distant law will be offered the opportunity to defend themselves, at least indirectly, the latter from the National Assembly.
The group of deputies of Iric Ciotti (UDR), ally with the Lepéniste party, presents this Thursday, June 26 in the Hemicycle, a bill destined to prohibit the immediate execution of inelegability sentences.
This is precisely the penalty of which Marine Le Pen received in the first instance for embezzlement of public funds. If confirmed, the appeal trial is expected to be the summer of 2026, the triple presidential candidate could not apply for the average medium. A scenario against which the RN and the UDR protest.
“The free choice of voters”
Author of the bill that will be debated by the deputies, Éric Ciotti question the immediate execution of the sanctions of inelegability in the presentation of the reasons for their text:
“How to understand that such a fundamental right (the eligibility editor’s note), so precious in a democracy, can withdraw from a citizen without even waiting for a final judicial decision,” writes the elected representative of the sea Alps before explaining:
“This bill is only aimed at avoiding a provisional decision, addressed to an alleged innocent person from appeal, can lead to final consequences in the functioning of our democracy and the free choice of voters.”
Specifically, Éric Ciotti wishes to “specify in article 131-26 of the Criminal Code that the prohibition of the right to vote or inelegability may be subject to provisional execution.”
“It refers to other people” that Marine Le Pen
If the left as a central block judged that this bill was in response to the judicial destination of Marine Le Pen, Éric Ciotti ensures otherwise. “It refers to other people. That we can deprive a accused of the efficiency of an appeal procedure because it is chosen that it is a law of the law,” he defended himself before the press on Wednesday.
Ramer of the text, the deputy Udr Brigitte Barèges spoke of his personal case in the Law Committee last Monday. Previously mayor of Montuban, was sentenced to embezzlement of public funds and declared ineligible with the immediate execution and then released in the same year, in 2021.
“During the night, the city and the agglomeration I carried lost their government, they saw their project and their work paralyzed for eleven months,” he denounced. In the eyes of the deputy of Tarn-Et-Garonne, “such penalties constitute an attack on the presumption of innocence to the extent that they give a required force normally reserved for a final decision that establishes guilt.”
“This can only influence the freedom of choice of the voter,” he insisted.
Inswin to convince most of his comrades. In the Committee, the only article was eliminated 23 votes against 21, despite the support of the deputies of the RN-UDR and LR alliance. This suggests a similar scenario in the hemicycle, unless the lack of participation in the ranks of the presidential camp and the left.
Source: BFM TV
