Would they have gone crazy, these judges, who in the name of the law, set fire to the pampa? We had tested, less than a year ago, the dissolution: thank you Emmanuel Macron. In the mind of the head of state, it was necessary to bring a clarification after the rout of his party to the Europeans. The voters took it to the letter, granting 29.6 % of their votes to representatives of the national rally and making the country ungovernable. Funny clarification.
Monday, March 31, started episode 2 of the dissolution, even more obscure and deleterious: mutilation. Because this is what it is about: the mutilation of our democracy based on the rule of law, with judges who apply the law “in the name of the French people”. Logically, Marine Le Pen, who in the past had no hard enough words against policies contravening the law, was found guilty of embezzlement of funds and severely sentenced.
The law has imposed itself, so much the better. But the people have been forgotten and the political crisis is before us. Because Marine Le Pen’s condemnation has a five -year sentence of immediate ineligibility resembles a denial of democracy: the provisional execution measure reduces its chances of bringing the colors of its 2027 presidential movement, while it is the favorite of polls. Does this advance give him the right to be above the laws? Certainly no. But provisional execution, which destroys the principle of presumption of innocence, acts as a fragmentation bomb for our democracy, insofar as it almost certainly deprives the champion of the extreme right of competition, amputating what the Constitutional Council calls “the freedom of the voter” (decision n ° 2025-1129 QPC of March 28, 2025).
After standardization, radicalization
“The rule of law is above all a guarantee of life in common,” said Didier-Roland Tabuteau, vice-president of the Council of State on the site of his institution. But what life in common we are talking about, after the explosion of the judgment issued on March 31? “We live side by side, I fear that tomorrow, we will not live face to face,” said former interior minister Gérard Collomb. A fear that today affects the entire electoral body, torn by this judicial decision. The most naive will congratulate themselves on the early exit from the Ring of Marine Le Pen, without taking the anger of his supporters. The speed with which the populists of all stripes, from Viktor Orbán to Elon Musk, reacted to denounce the condemnation of Marine Le Pen attests to the reality of this populist international. After standardization, the time is for radicalization. The verdict may precipitate France in a fratricidal war.
It remains, for the government a close exit door. Claim, in the name of this freedom of the voter – or rather that of the 9,379,092 voters who voted RN last year – the acceleration of the procedure in appeal wanted by Marine Le Pen. To avoid, if it is not already too late, a collision between justice and the supreme election.