(Adnkronos) – The Lille Administrative Court has confirmed with a ruling the dismissal from office of Marine Le Pen from the position of Departmental Councillor of Pas-de-Calais. On April 10, 2025, the Prefect of Pas-de-Calais declared Marine Le Pen’s resignation, a decision that followed the sentence issued by the Paris Criminal Court on March 31, 2025, which had deprived Marine Le Pen of the right to run for office for five years, with provisional execution of the sentence.
“On the merits of the dispute, the court ruled that the legislative provisions of the Electoral Code applicable to departmental councillors require the prefect to automatically declare the departmental elected official ineligible by the criminal court, by means of a judgment accompanied by provisional execution. The administrative court therefore rejected the request,” the court explained in a press release. Marine Le Pen has announced, through her lawyer, Thomas Laval, that she will appeal this decision to the Council of State, an appeal with suspensive effect intended to allow her to continue to hold office in the canton of Hénin-Beaumont 2.
Marine Le Pen was sentenced to four years in prison, two of which were suspended, and to a period of ineligibility for “misappropriation of public funds” in the case of the assistants of the European parliamentarians of the Front National. Marine Le Pen has appealed her conviction. The appeal hearing is scheduled for the coming months and the judgment should be delivered before the summer of 2026, as already indicated by the Paris Court of Appeal.
