While the verdict must be delivered on March 31, the prosecution requested against Marine Le Pen five years in prison, of which two years are subject to change, and a fine of 300,000 euros, but above all: a sentence of ineligibility.
The highly publicized trial known as the RN parliamentary assistants affair ended this Wednesday, November 27. On today’s program: a final pleading, that of Me Rodolphe Bosselut, Marine Le Pen’s lawyer. On this occasion, the defense of the figure of the National Rally particularly pleaded against the “political elimination” of Marine Le Pen. While she risks a sentence of ineligibility accompanied by provisional execution, Me Rodolphe Bosselut estimated that “it does not only concern Marine Le Pen, it concerns […] 13 million voters, or even the entire electorate, or even the sincerity of the vote. It’s not nothing!” relays The World.
For the lawyer of the three-time presidential candidate, “the provisional execution would have disproportionate, irremediable, definitive legal consequences”. And Me Rodolphe Bosselut judges that this “severity” of the prosecution is “unjustified” and even “gratuitous”. According to him, it would be nothing more and nothing less than a “demand for political elimination”. This “severity” would cast “doubt on the very intentions of the judicial institution”, added Marine Le Pen’s lawyer.
Earlier, Me Rodolphe Bosselut began his pleading by highlighting his client’s “total good faith” during the trial, emphasizing her “almost” daily presence and her “desire to explain herself”. “She answered all the questions seriously and sincerely, and did not evade any of them,” praised the lawyer, adding: “We can blame her for many things, but not for having disdained the court or the institution judicial as the prosecution said.” And to question: “Is there any arrogance in defending oneself?” Me Rodolphe Bosselut also confided that he wanted to “convince the court” that “the parliamentary practice in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2016 criticized by [s]”The client and the other defendants were not only banal, harmless, because shared by all European parties, but free from any fraudulent intention, because considered to be admitted.” Marine Le Pen will be determined on her fate on May 31, 2025, at 10 a.m. .