Marine Le Pen
The Committee on legal Affairs of the European Parliament (EP) “overwhelmingly” voted for deprivation of parliamentary immunity of a candidate for President of France and leader of the National front, marine Le Pen. On Tuesday, February 28, according to Reuters.
Was 18 deputies, against — three. Now the decision of the Committee must be approved by the European Parliament. The vote on the issue in the EP, according to the Agency, could be held this week.
The question of removal with Le Pen’s immunity was set because of pictures of acts of violence committed by militants of the international terrorist organization “Islamic state” ( IG, is prohibited in Russia), which she had placed in his microblog on Twitter in 2015. The number of published frames — the execution of American journalist James Foley.
Against members of the party of Le Pen is currently being investigated about the misuse of the funds of the European Union. On 20 February the police raided the headquarters of the “National front”.
Aurobora, anti-fraud, said that Le Pen fictitiously hired two people as assistants to the head office of the party Catherine Gzira and his bodyguard Thierry Legge. They received a total of nearly 350 thousand Euro, MEPs demanded that Le Pen to return this amount to the European budget. Itself the leader of the French right-wing stated that in no way to blame. Moreover, Le Pen has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Aurobora Klaus Welle.
Marine Le Pen heads the “national front” in 2011. The politician has already lost his parliamentary immunity in the European Parliament: in 2013, the MPs have accused her of inciting racial hatred.
Presidential elections will be held in France in April-may of 2017. In addition to Le Pen, in the struggle for a post of the head of state will attend the candidate from right party “the Republicans” françois Fillon and the leader of movement “Forward!” Emmanuel Macron.