In the Assembly, Éric Ciotti and the UDR defend a "cronies' law" to save Marine Le Pen's candidacy in the presidential election

On the morning of Thursday, June 26, the National Assembly voted on an amendment for the "creation of a class-based justice system." A mischievous move by the left to clarify the content of the parliamentary niche of Éric Ciotti's Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) group.

Among the texts examined, one aimed to allow Marine Le Pen, ineligible since she was sentenced in March to four years in prison for embezzlement, to run in the 2027 presidential election. Another bill aimed to prevent undocumented people from marrying on national territory.

The debates on the first text were heated. Because the amendment presented by the...