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The Élysée pushes Dupond-Moretti and the magistrates to dialogue

2020-09-30T18:36:03.497Z


The Keeper of the Seals will have to prove his political sense by resolving by himself the crisis that opposes him to the judicial world.


Take the measure of the conflict, and play the ombudsman in a case that is turning sour.

On Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron's justice adviser received at length the two major magistrates' unions, the Syndicat de la magistrature (SM) and the Union Syndicale de la Magistrature (USM) which are increasingly opposed. virulent to the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti.

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Initially, this meeting was motivated by a letter sent, in mid-September, by the two professional organizations to Emmanuel Macron.

The magistrates were moved by the administrative investigation - with a view to possible disciplinary proceedings - carried out by the Minister of Justice in the context of the “fadettes affair”.

They reproached him for a conflict of interest and then appealed to the

"constitutional role

(of the President of the Republic)

of guarantor of the independence of the judicial authority"

.

Since then, the affair has escalated to the point of bordering on political crisis.

To Hélène Davo, the Elysée councilor, to take on the role of missi dominici to try to untangle it, in particular by calling for dialogue.

Because, as a very close connoisseur of the file points out,

“one cannot lead such a ministry while ignoring the unions of magistrates.

The Minister of Justice must receive them very quickly in order to calm things down. If the President of the Republic were obliged to intervene, it would be a political snub for Eric Dupond-Moretti ”

.

Calm the storm

Many advisers are pleading for the Minister of Justice to receive them as quickly as possible.

At the Chancellery, we are assured that "

this will be the case very soon

".

Not to say incessantly.

Since a first meeting in July, when he was appointed, the Minister of Justice, despite important announcements, has not seen fit to speak with them again.

The announcement of a rising budget on Tuesday could have been a happy occasion to calm the storm.

A storm which, after the decision of a disciplinary investigation within the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), was amplified with the appointment of a lawyer at the head of the National School of Magistrates (ENM).

"So many announcements which have been largely validated without reservation by the Head of State"

, it is emphasized in high places to recall that Eric Dupond-Moretti has the unfailing support of Emmanuel Macron.

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If the Keeper of the Seals must strive for a strengthened and peaceful consultation with the magistrates, the latter will also have to go a long way and slow down their strategy of breaking with their minister.

“These tensions and these controversies prevent us from taking an interest in the substance.

Many subjects brought up by the unions are also brought up by the minister, such as the regulation of means of investigation - such as fadettes - or the supervision of preliminary investigations, carried in particular by the Syndicat de la magistrature "

, regrets a source. informed.

Within the executive, it is also estimated that the judicial institution would emerge grown

"to accept an investigation into its dysfunctions rather than to stand on its positions by believing that there is nothing to see or to rethink.

This in no way constitutes an attack on financial justice ”

.

The unions also endeavor to bring back to the Elysee the motions of no confidence against the Keeper of the Seals that come from the courts in order to show that the evil is deep and not limited to the small world of the Parisian magistracy.

Source: lefigaro

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