“Jean-Luc Mélenchon isolates himself a little more from the rest of the left. On Monday, March 31, the Paris court sentenced the candidate Marine Le Pen to a 5-year ineligibility sentence with provisional execution. When Fabien Roussel (PCF), like Boris Vallaud (PS), calls to” respect justice “and that Marine Tondelier (EELV) castigates a” party [qui] wishes severe justice, but only for others “, the rebellious speech detonates.
After all, and it is his right, LFI opposes “in principle that the recourse is impossible for a defendant whatever it is”. The movement certainly recognizes “facts declared proven particularly serious”, but was it necessary to specify never having “had as a means of action to use a court to get rid of the national rally”? On the basket, the voices are rising. “It is a way of embarking citizens of good faith against the judges who protect democracy”, blows the former rebellious deputy Raquel Garrido, who castigates words taking up “the narrative of the business right”. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, supporter of a life, does not care: “The decision to revoke an elected official should return to the people.”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon has always had a maximalist vision of the justice of elected officials, it is his constancy. Since 2017 and the editorial staff of his program, “the common future”, the rebellious leader has pleaded to “make life ineligible any person condemned for corruption”. Once is not custom, his best enemy, François Hollande, had spoken himself in favor of this measure – after the confessions of Jérôme Cahuzac in 2013 – thinking it acceptable as the affair was “infamous” for the political class. The former President of the Republic had ended up retreating, noting that the proposal was not in accordance with the Constitution.
“He is wary of the irruption of justice in politics”
Only, in this area, the doctrine of Jean-Luc Mélenchon is sometimes confused. The measurement is automatic, analyze certain experts. It is however this principle that he condemns, in November 2024, during the requisitions of the prosecutor against Marine Le Pen, greeting a possible ineligibility decreed “to the appreciation of the judge”. For the rest, the president of the La Boétie Institute worries, and pleads for this same penalty to be “applied before expiration of all the appeals provided by law”. Already almost alone, on the left. After all, he was in Brussels when leftist parliamentarians adopted the famous Sapin II law. On a port, we find him a little too lenient with the very likely former far -right candidate. Political adversity, legal complicity? The rebellious presidential had certainly made Marine Le Pen his best opponent, dreaming of confronting her as part of a second round.
But the rebellious is above all wicked by judges. He sometimes showed benevolence towards them: “When one is not happy with justice, you have to change the laws, not question the judges. We can change the law and the judges apply the law in the name of the French people,” he said about the Fillon affair. For the rest, “Jean-Luc is structurally distressed by the emergence of justice in politics, whether it is remotely controlled or not, analyzes one of his former advisers. For him, justice does not have to decide things in the place of the sovereign people.”
Does Jean-Luc Mélenchon fear, in the future, to undergo such fate as Marine Le Pen? A document from the European Antifraude Wrestling Office (OLAF), dating from 2021 and revealed last week by Release,, reports “breaches” and “irregularities” about the activity of two parliamentary assistants of the rebellious patriarch, European deputy between 2013 and 2017. A damage that the community body estimated at just over 500,000 euros, less than the European Parliament’s estimate concerning the FN, but greater than that linked to the modem. Jean-Luc Mélenchon remains innocent, no one having been implicated for the moment, since the file remains in the hands of the investigating judge.
“#Stoplawfare” – #jesoutiensmarine: the strange resonance
“The Republic is me!” The year 2018 completes its distrust of the magistrates. In addition to the case of parliamentary assistants, some rebellious executives are targeted by a preliminary investigation concerning the 2017 campaign costs. In September 2024, Sophia Chikirou, MP LFI of Paris and patron of the movement of the movement, is indicted, suspected of having surfed to the candidate certain services with his company Mediasc. The rebellion, the media of rebellious France, will attack in his columns Dominique Blanc, “the judge from the PS who attacks the rebellious”, at the origin of the searches at the melenchonist seat, a “former collaborator appointed by Piston PS”.
For several years, LFI embarked on a campaign castigating the tactics of “Lawfare”, a concept which was born in Latin America, denouncing the use of the judicial system to fight a political enemy. In 2019, the Patriarch published stands in the columns of JDDalongside Lula, Pablo Iglesias and 200 other personalities, calling for “the end of political trials”, where the case of Jean-Luc Mélenchon is compared to that of Russian or Philippin opponents. Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Mélenchon publishes a book, And so on, a political trial in France (Plon, 2019), declaring that “the politicization of justice decided by Macron”. #Stoplawfare: At the time, the drain word swore on rebellious networks; It sounds strangely with the current frontist watchword, #jesoutiensmarine.
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