Threatened with ineligibility in the trial of RN assistants, Marine Le Pen is no longer sure of anything for 2027

Decryption Threatened with a sentence of ineligibility with immediate effect in the trial of the parliamentary assistants of the Frontist party, the leader of the far right could be forced to abandon her place in the next presidential race. Her camp accuses the justice system of wanting to “kill” her.

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A few days before her trial, Marine Le Pen said she had “no longer afraid of going under a truck” than to be “prevented by justice” to run for the Elysée. Today, however, it is the strict application of the law which threatens to deprive her of running for the presidential election. After a month and a half of debates at the trial of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front – which became the National Rally (RN) in 2018 – the prosecution requested five years in prison against her, including two years, as well as a 300,000 euro fine. And above all a sentence of ineligibility of five years, accompanied by its provisional execution, synonymous with immediate effect and therefore premature exit from the road.

You had to see her, the favorite of the polls and public opinion, in the front row of the courtroom of the Paris criminal court, this Wednesday, November 13. Twenty-five years of political life to get here, to be caught by the patrol when a presidential victory never seemed so close to him. Since being sworn in as a lawyer in 1992, Marine Le Pen had only practiced for a few years, at a time when…