DECRYPTION – The civil party's lawyers denounced a centralized system intended to have the institution cover the salaries of party executives.
The civil party on Tuesday cast the net that the public prosecutor will pick up this Wednesday at the trial of the parliamentary assistants of the FN MEPs. Mes Bérénice de Warren and Patrick Maisonneuve, counsel to the European Parliament, are operating in favorable territory: the eighteen half-day hearings which have passed since September 30 before the 11e criminal chamber have placed the defense in an extremely uncomfortable position, and everyone expects very severe requisitions – which the court will be free to follow or not.
With, as an issue for Marine Le Pen, a possible penalty of ineligibility which no one understands, in this case, whether it would be obligatory or not in the event of conviction for embezzlement of public funds and/or complicity, but which any hypothesis could prevent him from competing in the next presidential election if such a sentence becomes final before spring 2027.
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