Ineligibility: MPs oppose ban on immediate execution of sentences in committee

A bill seen by the left and the central bloc as a reaction to Marine Le Pen's conviction. The National Assembly's Law Commission opposed a UDR bill on Monday, June 16, aimed at prohibiting the immediate execution of ineligibility sentences.

Presented by Eric Ciotti's group, an ally of the National Rally, on its reserved day ("parliamentary niche"), the bill stipulates that "the ban on the right to vote and ineligibility cannot be subject to provisional execution" , that is to say, immediate application, even when the convicted person appeals.

In defense of the text, MP Brigitte Barèges deplored "an irreparable attack on democratic life," and cited her own case as an example. The former mayor of Montauban was convicted and then acquitted in 2021 for embezzlement of public funds. "This can only influence the voter's freedom of choice," she insisted. Bryan Masson (RN) deplored "a distortion of the electoral process, a form of anticipated political banishment."

But after a dispute over the number of voters, the single article was deleted by 23 votes to 21, despite the support of the RN-UDR alliance and LR deputies.

It will be examined in the chamber on June 26, three months after the conviction of the leader of the RN , Marine Le Pen, to a sentence of ineligibility in the affair of the assistants of MEPs, with an immediate application prohibiting her at this stage, despite her appeal, from competing in the elections, in particular the next presidential election.

For the Macronist group Together for the Republic, former minister Prisca Thevenot denounced "a declaration of friendship, even of allegiance, tailor-made for (...) Marine Le Pen." For LFI, Gabrielle Cathala castigated an initiative "so that Madame Le Pen benefits from a more favorable text during her appeal judgment next year."