Marine Le Pen trapped in a perilous legal countdown

The requisitions in the so-called trial of “parliamentary assistants of the FN” (now RN) caused such an earthquake that one could believe that they had the authority of res judicata. This is not the case. But by requesting the provisional execution of the proposed sentence (5 years in prison, 2 of which are closed, 300,000 euros fine and 5 years of ineligibility), the Paris prosecutor's office has broken down a sort of taboo that prevailed in political affairs. -judicial. And it falls on Marine Le Pen, splashing her twenty-four co-defendants in the process.

The request for provisional execution of an award before avenues of appeal have been exhausted is not, in itself, revolutionary. But in this case it is coupled with the obligation for the court to sentence the defendants, if they are found guilty of embezzlement of public funds or complicity, to an ineligibility sentence of 5 years; this provision was introduced by a law of December 11…