COUNTERPOINT – In this scenario, she would not be able to run in the next presidential elections. It would be naive to believe that magistrates do not have in mind the political consequences of such a decision.
Privately, from LFI to the government base, many (very) senior officials say they find it abnormal that Marine Le Pen is prevented from running in the presidential election because of the possible judgment in her trial. In public, only Gérald Darmanin qualified this possibility as « shocking ». « Fight Madame Le Pen is done in the ballot boxes, not elsewhere »estimated the former Minister of the Interior.
It is difficult for many to say out loud what they are thinking, unless they are accused of weighing on the independence of justice, or even contesting it. Didn't the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Nathalie Delattre, criticize Darmanin for « comment on a court decision »while we are only in the requisitions and no decision is expected before 2025?
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