Before Marine Le Pen, other elected officials were sentenced to ineligibility

Marine Le Pen was condemned to five years of immediat ineligibility, threatening his candidacy for 2027. A sanction already pronounced against French political figures in the past.

Ineligibility is part of the judicial arsenal and several elected officials, local and national, sometimes large, have already been confronted with it.

The rapporteur of the draft of the new Electoral Code, Senator Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI), stated this Tuesday (1st) that the proposal “unifies” the rules regarding ineligibility in the country. In an interview with CNN, he denied that the changes represent a “setback” in electoral legislation. “It's not a setback, when you standardize and set clear and transparent rules, on the contrary, the whole of society wins [...] Everyone wins when the law i…

This morning, our colleagues from BFM TV reported a statement by François Bayrou concerning the court's decision on the case of parliamentary assistants of the RN: "France is the only country where we do this." Understood, France would be the only country in which people can be sentenced to a penalty of ineligibility. What does this term mean? It refers to the fact that a person is in an administrative incapacity to run for election. There are o…

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Sentenced on Monday 31 March to an immediate ineligibility of five years in the case of his party's parliamentary assistants, Marine Le Pen declared that he was a victim of "a political decision." Before her, several local and national elected representatives of the Fifth Republic had already been confronted with this sanction.