Could the appeal trial be held before the next presidential election? – release

The presidential horizon of Marine Le Pen was considerably obscured, Monday, March 31with the decision of the Paris Criminal Court in the case of fictitious parliamentary assistants of the FN (now RN). The head of the RN deputies was sentenced to a sentence of five years of ineligibility with provisional execution. A decision of which she has, in the process, announced appeal.

By execution « provisional », it is in fact to be understood « immediate ». And it is this modality which contradicts the political ambitions of Marine Le Pen: if the rest of his sorrows is suspended pending the judgment of appeal, his ineligibility has become effective as soon as the court ordered its provisional execution. Depriving the former finalist of the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections of an candidacy for the next deadline, which must be held in the spring of 2027.

The road to the Elysée is also not definitively crossed out for Marine Le Pen. If the appeal trial was held before this date, and if the Court of Appeal raised its penalty of ineligibility, then it could appear in the presidential election of 2027. Hence the importance, for the former president of the RN, that « Justice is haste », As she enjoined the TF1 JT set on Monday evening. His niec