Judged, condemned, but a candidate.

The deputy for the 4th constituency of Puy-de-Dôme, Michel Fanget (MoDem), goes there.

Nevertheless.

He said he filed his candidacy for the legislative elections despite his conviction on appeal, yesterday, to two years of ineligibility for "complicity in fraud".

If the Riom Court of Appeal (Puy-de-Dôme) acquitted the deputy for complicity in fraud against Pôle emploi, it sentenced him to a fine of 2,000 euros and two years in prison. ineligibility for the same facts to the detriment of Health Insurance.

The 72-year-old deputy, also a doctor, is accused of having provided sick leave to a loved one in conflict with social organizations.

His lawyers have announced that they have lodged an appeal in cassation.

"I still submitted my candidacy, because this case is unlikely, while I myself reimbursed all the amounts due", justified the deputy.

We "break a man's political career"

To circumvent this penalty of ineligibility, his lawyers - who believe that one "breaks the political career of a man" - would rely on the case law of the Constitutional Council, according to which the enforceable nature of the sentence would not apply not to "ongoing or future" national mandates.

At first instance, he was sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence, 8,000 euros fine and five years of ineligibility.

It remains to be seen, however, whether Michel Fanget will really have the nomination of the MoDem in this context.

On Wednesday, the LREM candidate for the legislative elections in the 4th constituency of Dordogne, Jérôme Peyrat, sentenced in 2020 for violence against an ex-companion, had finally announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy after a series of criticisms in the political class.

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