Ineligibility of Marine Le Pen: François Bayrou's ambivalences, between personal reserves and support for justice

The court underlines the 'particular seriousness' of the case, due to the Eurosceptic ideas of RN. He also fears unspecified “unrest”, as if he were reading in the future. The political earthquake triggered by the condemnation of the immediate ineligibility of the leader of the National Assembly, Marine...

The constitutionalist details the logic behind Monday's decision. And recalls that remedies exist in the judicial system to correct potential errors.

The Prime Minister said he was "compressed" by the provisional execution of Marine Le Pen's sentence of ineligibility. A position that sparked controversy up to his own camp.

DECRYPTAGE - The Prime Minister entrusted his "questions", suggesting a "reflection" on the immediate execution of sentences despite the appeal. A singular position for this singer of the "moralization" of political life, bruised by his passage before the court in a case similar to that of the RN.

TRIBUNE. Despite a meticulously substantiated judgment rendered on 31 March, the wide dissemination of the rhetoric of the accused, besides contributing to discrediting the work of the judges, leaves little room for analysis of the practices of misappropriation of public funds, observes the politician Estelle Delaine, in a forum in the "World".

The judges who sentenced Marine Le Pen took care to explain in their judgement the need for a sentence of ineligibility with provisional execution, in view of the seriousness of the facts and the defence system adopted. On Tuesday evening, the Paris Court of Appeal announced that it would consider a trial with "a decision in the summer of 2026".