“The judges are right to apply the law”, but it is “the people who must decide,” says Sarah Knafo, of reconquest

The extreme right MEP takes Switzerland as an example, which has removed the ineligibility sentence.

“Judges are right to apply the law”but it is “The people who must decide” said on Sunday, in Political Questions on France Inter, Le Monde and Franceinfo (Canal 27), Sarah Knafo, MEP, reclaimed on the condemnation of Marine Le Pen to an ineligibility sentence. The RN’s leader was sentenced last March in the case of European parliamentary assistants, to four years in prison, including two farm, five years of ineligibility with immediate execution, and 100,000 euros fine. Justice considered that public funds had been diverted for the benefit of the party, the National Front then the National Rally, to finance its activities and its relatives.

“The judges are right to apply the law. It is indeed normal when we have diverted money to have to reimburse him” et “Pay a fine”, estimates the MEP of Eric Zemmour’s party. The judges of the Paris administrative court sentenced Marine Le Pen to an ineligibility sentence with provisional execution, a sentence provided for by law for acts of embezzlement of public funds. This conviction could thwart its presidential destiny.

However, the MEP Eric Zemmour believes that the final decision should return to citizens: “I consider that it is the people who must decide whether to have diverted public money deserves that we no longer vote for the person or deserves that one votes anyway for him [ou elle]”. To support her remarks, Sarah Knafo quotes the example of Switzerland, which deleted ineligibility sentences starting from the principle that “The people are quite adult and mature enough to sanction himself the behaviors he deems deviant in a democracy”.