Where to find it? Can it change something?

A petition to support Marine Le Pen! Here is the first idea of ​​the RN to defend that which was found guilty of embezzlement of public funds on March 31, in the case of parliamentary assistants of the National Front. The former president of the far -right party was sentenced to a sentence of four years’ imprisonment, two years of which were firm, developable with an electronic bracelet, at a fine of 100,000 euros, and to five years of ineligibility, with provisional execution.

The ex-presidential candidate for the presidential election intends to appeal, but the latter is not suspensive the sentence of ineligibility applies with immediate effect. Marine Le Pen is therefore unable to compete in the presidential election and has no recourse to have this ineligibility sound cancelled. It is above all this specific point which is unworthy of the support of Marine Le Pen. Jordan Bardella, the president of the party, wanted to launch a petition.

Where can we find this petition online? It is available on this link, which refers directly to the document page that the president of the RN calls for signing. Jordan Bardella presents this petition as a brand of support and an action aimed at denouncing “the conviction with provisional execution of Marine Le Pen, who prevents him from being a candidate in 2027”, not hesitating to speak of “democratic scandal”. Jordan Bardella called on his supporters for a “popular and peaceful mobilization” in order to show that “the will of the people is stronger”. The president of the RN believes that “it is not only Marine Le Pen who is unjustly condemned: it is French democracy that is executed”. Whoever deplores the decision of the judges, who, according to him, prove “dictatorship” and prevent “the French people from expressing themselves” calls for signing the petition in the Verdict disapproval.

Can this petition change something to the decision of the judges? No. Can it make it possible to initiate a procedure to legally contest Marine Le Pen’s ineligibility? No. This document will have no weight other than that of showing that a significant number of French people are sufficiently indignant to sign it. Marine Le Pen has only two solutions to compete for the Presidency of the Republic in 2027: that his judgment on appeal leads to a relaxation or that it benefits from presidential pardon.

A counter-petition of socialists

A few hours after the launch of the petition in favor of Marine Le Pen, the Socialist Party drew on Monday evening Another petition to defend, this time, “justice and the rule of law”. “No one is above the laws. Not even Marine Le Pen who so far defended life ineligibility for elected officials who divert public funds,” said the boss of the socialists.

“The petition launched by the RN attacks the foundations of our democracy and defends a two -speed justice. Faced with this offensive, defend justice and the rule of law!” pleads Olivier Faure. On Monday afternoon, the Superior Council of the Magistracy had already indignant, in a statement, “virulent” reactions after the conviction of Marine Le Pen, considering them “likely to seriously call into question the independence of the judicial authority, the foundation of the rule of law”. Later, in the evening, the Keeper of the Seals, Gérald Darmanin, reminded him that “the threats made against the magistrates of the Judicial Court of Paris are unacceptable in a democracy”, considering the worrying phenomenon “for the independence of the judicial authority”.