While the Paris prosecutor's office requested five years of ineligibility against Marine Le Pen for embezzlement, the far right hastened to denounce “an attack on democracy”, which could cost her her candidacy in 2027.
On Wednesday, November 13, the Paris prosecutor's office requested five years in prison, two of which could be suspended, as well as five years of ineligibility required against Marine Le Pen in the case of the FN parliamentary assistants in the European Parliament. Accused of having embezzled funds for the benefit of her party, the one who has already run for president three times denounced “the violence of requisitions” at the end of the hearing.
If the trial is to resume on Monday with the defense's pleadings, certain voices have already been raised on the right to criticize a harsh indictment against Marine Le Pen. Among them: former Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin. The latter regrets the sentence of ineligibility required by the prosecutor against the leader of the National Rally. “It would be deeply shocking if Marine Le Pen were deemed ineligible and, thus, unable to stand before the vote of the French people,” wrote the former resident of Place Beauvau on the social network X. And added: “Fighting Madame Le Pen is done at the ballot box, not elsewhere. If the court judges that she must be condemned, it cannot be done electorally, without the expression of the People.”
Gérald Darmanin concluded his message by calling “not to be afraid of democracy” and to “avoid deepening, even further, the difference between the ‘elites’ and the vast majority of our fellow citizens”. A notable outing which was not at all to the taste of PS boss Olivier Faure. The latter castigated “a big breach of the principle of separation of powers” from the former minister. “Big embarrassing wink from the one who pretends to pity the one whose electorate he dreams of winning back”he also quipped.
A “relentlessness” and “revenge” for Jordan Bardella
The president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, did not fail to react after the statement of the requisitions taken against Marine Le Pen denouncing a “relentlessly” and one “vengeance” from the justice department. “His scandalous requisitions aim to deprive millions of French people of their vote in 2027. It is an attack on democracy,” he castigated X, while giving him his support.
Several elected officials from the RN and the far right were quick to use the hashtag #JeSoutiensMarine on social networks to make their indignation heard. “The course of French democracy must not be confiscated again from voters,” said Éric Ciotti, recalling the Fillon affair. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan sees in this a desire to “to muzzle the French people”.
published on November 14 at 8:41 a.m., Claire Domenech, 6Medias
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