The European Court of Human Rights confirms Marine Le Pen's ineligibility
When it doesn't want to, it doesn't want to... Between a search of its headquarters , the exhumed comments of several of its executives and the revelations of L'Humanité on a parliamentary collaborator, the National Rally (RN) is going through a more than complicated period.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has just darkened the skies a little more for the far-right party. The supranational body has just rejected the request for an interim measure filed on Tuesday by Marine Le Pen , seeking to suspend her ineligibility sentence, which had been imposed by the Paris Criminal Court.
The ECHR argues that "in any event, the existence of an imminent risk of irreparable harm to a right protected by the (European) Convention on Human Rights or its protocols has not been established." Marine Le Pen will therefore have to wait for her appeal hearing, the verdict of which is expected in the summer of 2026, to find out whether she will be able to run in the presidential election.
The Court did not rule on the merits of the case, but rejected the application filed by the head of the RN under Article 39 of the Regulation, which provides for the intervention of the ECHR in the event of an imminent risk of irreparable harm to a right protected by the Convention.
Marine Le Pen rightly believed that there was an urgent need to suspend her ineligibility sentence, in case Emmanuel Macron decided to dissolve the National Assembly again, since he once again has the possibility of doing so.
The president of the RN group in the National Assembly was found guilty on March 31 by the Paris Criminal Court of having set up a "system" of embezzlement of public funds to pay employees of her party, the National Front (since renamed the National Rally) with money from the European Parliament between 2004 and 2016, to the tune of 4.4 million euros.
In addition to the ineligibility sentence, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced her to four years in prison, two of which were suspended. Twenty-four other defendants, including the party as a legal entity, were also sentenced. Half have appealed.
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