National Group accuses the Prosecutor’s Office of violating the separation of powers by asking to disqualify Le Pen

MADRID 14 Nov. () –

The French far-right National Rally party denounced this Thursday that the Prosecutor’s Office’s request to disqualify the party’s leader, Marine Le Pen, for a period of five years for an alleged case of embezzlement constitutes an attack on the separation of powers.

The National Group has launched a campaign to collect signatures to show the rejection of the Prosecutor’s Office request and also to convey support to Le Pen. “Defend democracy, support Marine,” reads the heading of the relevant press release published by the group on its website.

“As if the trial had never taken place, the Prosecutor’s Office has followed an implacable logic: all guilty. This is a direct blow to the freedom of action and expression of a political movement that, however, is legitimized by millions of French people. “, he denounced.

Thus, the party led by Le Pen considers that the Prosecutor’s Office’s request represents “a clear interference in the organization of parliamentary life, challenging the separation of powers.” “The Prosecutor’s Office seems to question perfectly legitimate political practices,” the statement added.

Finally, the party has stressed that this is “a serious moment” and that these “attacks” by the Prosecutor’s Office aim to “discredit” Le Pen and “weaken” the party. “This is an attempt to eliminate the voice of the true opposition,” denounced the ultranationalist formation.

These statements are in line with what was stated the day before by Le Pen herself, who went so far as to accuse the Prosecutor’s Office of trying to “exclude her from political life” and “deprive her and the French of the ability to vote for whoever they are.” want.” In addition, the prominent politician criticized the “excesses” of the Prosecutor’s Office.

The far-right leader has received support not only from her party, but also from other European partners, such as the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, who has compared this situation to the “judicial harassment” suffered by the elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, before his return to the White House.

“I can’t believe yesterday’s news about Le Pen. Please Marine, remember that we are with you in this battle. And don’t forget, judicial harassment was a crucial step towards President Trump’s victory,” said Prime Minister Orbán. on his official profile on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter.

The Paris Prosecutor’s Office demanded on Wednesday a conviction against Le Pen for a case of embezzlement of European Union funds, and requested a sentence of five years in prison and disqualification from provisional execution, with which she could be deprived of participate in the 2027 presidential elections.

Le Pen and 26 other AN members are being tried in a case of alleged false parliamentary assistants with whom they have embezzled funds worth at least three million euros from the European Union. Specifically, Le Pen is accused of paying three assistants who work on behalf of the party and with EU funds.

According to the accusation, the National Group would have created a “centralized management system” of the allowances paid to MEPs to remunerate their parliamentary assistants and which actually served to pay the salaries of party workers in a maneuver to “relieve the finances” of the party. the far-right formation.