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Édouard Balladur: "Court of Justice of the Republic: the last word must go to the elected representatives of the nation"

2021-04-20T19:20:56.525Z


EXCLUSIVE TRIBUNE - The former Prime Minister recounts his unique experience: in 1993 he created the Court of Justice of the Republic before, twenty-seven years later, appearing before it. Relaxed, he explains having noticed, during the investigation and then the trial, that the ...


Édouard Balladur is a senior French civil servant and statesman.

He was Prime Minister from March 1993 to May 1995.

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On March 4, 2021, the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) rendered its judgment in the lawsuit brought against me concerning the financing of my presidential campaign in 1995. It released me from the charge of complicity in the abuse of property social; she also released me from the charge of concealment of misuse of social property. Thus, nothing remains of the campaign of slander organized against me. It is established that I am in no way concerned by the so-called Karachi affair, a criminal attack which cost the lives of eleven of our compatriots, of which twenty years after the justice has failed to shed light on either the perpetrators or the real motives .

I am in a position to compare my personal experience of the functioning of this jurisdiction with what I had wished for by passing a constitutional reform in 1993 relating to the judgment of those in power.

I am all the more empowered

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Source: lefigaro

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