In politics, always beware of words and enthusiasm dictated by the event … They end up re -emerging one day. The first instance of Marine Le Pen to an immediately applicable ineligibility sentence is a perfect example. Barely a few minutes after the statement of judgment, votes of political leaders of several edges rose to denounce the iniquity or the democratic nonsense of the principle of provisional execution. A small music very different from those heard in recent years during the examination of bills on the moralization of political life.
A bill in the wake of the Fillon case
In the summer of 2017, when parliamentarians examine the bill aimed at “restoring confidence in public action” in the wake of the Fillon case, they applaud the limitations of their employees with both hands to avoid family proximity suspects. And if they wonder, for some, about the disappearance of the parliamentary reserve, all require very great transparency of elected officials. It must be said that the project led by Emmanuel Macron six months earlier went much further. The still candidate for the supreme magistracy had advanced the idea that “none of our candidates must therefore have a criminal record or have undergone any penalties of ineligibility”. Faced with the risk of unconstitutionality, the government renounces the idea of the “virgin criminal record”, but many deplore the retreat and call for more morals in politics.
Under the previous five -year term, the Cahuzac scandal had already fueled the race for transparency. In the process, the High Authority for the Transparency of Political Life (HATVP) is created, which is now very contested. In December 2016, the law relating to transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernization of economic life, known as the Sapin II law, provides for several measures. It strengthens the powers of the HATVP, which will still be extended the following year; It establishes the principle of a complementary penalty of ineligibility against any person condemned for an offense of involvement in probity. François Hollande had even considered life ineligibility before giving up there again for reasons of constitutionality. But the desire was not lacking. Always more at the time of the scandals, but far too much at the time of the verdicts.