Assistants affair: Marine Le Pen tries to save her local mandate in court

This Tuesday morning, May 20, was the start of Marine Le Pen's legal appeals in her battle against her five-year ineligibility . She did not go to the administrative court in Lille, but her lawyer did: he came to contest the RN elected official's automatic resignation from her mandate as departmental councilor of Pas-de-Calais, which she has held since 2021. A decision taken by the prefect after her conviction at first instance in the European parliamentary assistants affair: four years in prison, two of which are firm, and five years of ineligibility, executable immediately, without waiting for an appeal.

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