A political thunderbolt. Marine Le Pen is ineligible, with immediate effect and for five years, very seriously compromising his candidacy for the Elysée in 2027. The Paris court sentenced him this Monday, March 31, at the RN trial to a four -year prison sentence, two of which were closed, a sentence announced in the absence of the File Right File Chef who left the room before the end of the hearing.
“The court has taken into account, in addition to the risk of recurrence, the major public disorder, in this case the fact that a candidate for the presidential election is already sentenced to first instance,” said President Bénédicte de Perthuis to justify the immediate ineligibility sentence. What already arouse very many political reactions, the president of the RN Jordan Bardella claiming that “it is French democracy that is executed”.
The information to remember:
⇒ “It is French democracy that is executed”, denounces Jordan Bardella
⇒ The Kremlin deplores a “violation of democratic standards”
⇒ Marine Le Pen will be the guest of the 8 p.m. news from TF1 this Monday evening
2:45 p.m.
“We are going to appeal,” announces Marine Le Pen’s lawyer
Marine Le Pen will “appeal”, his lawyer said on Monday afternoon, Me Rodolphe Bosselut, after the condemnation of the leader of the National Rally to a five-year ineligibility sentence with immediate effect.
“It is a blow to democracy,” added the lawyer, during a brief statement to the press in front of the party’s Parisian headquarters, before joining his client. Marine Le Pen remains “combative”, said a few minutes earlier in front of journalists Laurent Jacobelli, RN deputy and party spokesperson.
2 p.m.
Laurent Wauquiez regrets “a very heavy and exceptional decision”
The leader of the deputies Les Républicains Laurent Wauquiez regretted a very heavy and exceptional decision on Monday “after the conviction of Marine Le Pen to a sentence of five years of immediate ineligibility, preventing him at this stage from presenting himself to the presidential election in 2027.
“It is not healthy that in a democracy, an elected official is prohibited to present himself to an election and I find that political debates must be decided in the ballot box,” said the candidate for the presidency of his party on the sidelines of a trip to Royan, according to an audio recording transmitted by his entourage to AFP. “This decision will necessarily have a very heavy weight on the functioning of our democracy. This is undoubtedly not the path that it would have been necessary to take,” he observed.
1:35 p.m.
“It is French democracy that is executed”, denounces Jordan Bardella
“Today, it is not only Marine Le Pen who is unjustly condemned: it is French democracy that is executed,” denounced Monday the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, after the sentence of five years of ineligibility with the immediate effect of the deputy of Pas-de-Calais. Jordan Bardella joined Marine Le Pen at the Paris headquarters of the National Rally, AFP journalists have noted.
1:25 p.m.
The Kremlin deplores a “violation of democratic standards”
The Kremlin deplored on Monday a “violation of democratic standards” on Monday, after the decision of the Paris court which declared ineligible with immediate effect Marine Le Pen.
“We do not want to ingest in the internal affairs of France, we have never done it,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov, despite Paris’s assertions of multiple Russian disinformation campaigns carried out against France. “But our observations of what is happening in European capitals show that we are not embarrassed at all there to go beyond the framework of democracy during a political process,” he said.
1:15 p.m.
LFI will beat “in the polls” the RN “whatever his or his candidate,” says Manuel Bompard
Insoumise France, which says it “act” of the conviction of Marine Le Pen, says that it will beat the RN “tomorrow in the ballot boxes, whatever its or its candidate”, in a statement released on Monday by the coordinator Manuel Bompard on X.
“We take note of this court decision, even if we refuse in principle that the appeal is impossible for a defendant whatever it is”, writes the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who claims to have “never had as a means of action to use a court to get rid of the national rally”. “We fight him in the polls as in the street”, and “we will also beat him in the polls tomorrow, whatever his or his candidate,” adds the party.
1:10 p.m.
Marine Le Pen “must pay for his sentence,” said the ecologist Marine Tondelier
Marine Le Pen “must pay her sentence” because “she is a” justiciable like the others “, said Marine Tondelier, the national secretary of environmentalists.” When we give lessons of exemplarity to everyone, we must start by applying it to ourselves “, added Marine Tondelier, also a municipal opposition advisor in the fief of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais).
Ineligibility, “it is a provision which is provided by law. When it was passed in the Assembly, this provision, Marine Le Pen did not oppose it, did not vote against. And therefore it is a litigant like the others”, according to Marine Tondelier.
1 p.m.
“I’m a navy!” Reacts Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban brought this Monday to Marine Le Pen on Monday, found guilty of embezzlement of public funds and declared ineligible. “I am a marine!”, Wrote on X the nationalist leader, who regularly denounces the judicial attacks against his allies.
12:55
Matteo Salvini denounces “a declaration of war from Brussels”
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini castigated the “Declaration of Brussels War” to the sources according to him of the condemnation of Marine Le Pen.
“Who fears the judgment of the voters often reassured by the judgment of the courts. In Paris, they condemned Marine Le Pen and they would like to exclude him from political life. A bad film that we also see in other countries such as Romania,” said Matteo Salvini, head of the (far right) league, in a press release.
12:50
Marine Le Pen will be the guest of the 8 p.m. news from TF1 this Monday evening
Marine Le Pen, sentenced this Monday to an ineligibility sentence with immediate execution for embezzlement of public funds, will be the guest of the TF1 TV news, said the channel to AFP. The RN File Chef, whose chances of presenting itself in the presidential election of 2027 are obeyed, left the courtroom of the Paris court in the morning before even the pronouncement of his sentence, without saying.