After her conviction, Marine Le Pen fallen from her mandate as departmental councilor – Liberation
The decree formalizing the loss of the mandate of departmental councilor of Pas-de-Calais de Marine Le Pen, after her conviction to five years of ineligibility, was taken and was notified to her this week, announced this Friday, April 18, the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais. The procedure required timeespecially because the prefecture was to wait for the notification of the judgment before it could start it.
Marine Le Pen can still contest this prefectural decree before administrative justice. Such a recourse would be suspensive, according to the electoral code. The Lille Administrative Court said this Friday not to have « Not recorded a request from Mrs. Le Pen to date ». His defense did not immediately respond to AFP requests.
Deemed alongside other members of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen was sentenced on March 31 to four years’ imprisonment, including two farm developed under electronic bracelet, and a fine of 100,000 euros as well as to An immediate five -year ineligibilitywhich compromises his candidacy for the presidential election of 2027. The Paris Criminal Court said it was at « heart » of a system of embezzlement of public funds set up to pay party employees with the money from the European Parliament, between 2004 and 2016. The total amount of diversions amounts to 4.4 million, 1.1 of which have already been reimbursed.
Under the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Council, Marine Le Pen, on the other hand, preserved her mandate as a deputy for Pas-de-Calais, but she will not be able to imagine if anticipated legislative elections are summoned after a new dissolution.
Since her conviction, which she appealed, the File of the Far Right’s leader denounces a « Political decision » Who « BAFOUSE the rule of law ». The Paris Court of Appeal promised that it « Will examine this file within deadlines which should make it possible to make a decision in the summer of 2026 »well before the presidential election of 2027.
