The National Assembly appointed by vote on Tuesday night the four new parliamentarians who will make up the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), including one LFI deputy and two RN. The ecologist Julien Bayou, the Insoumise Danièle Obono and the RN Bruno Bilde and Anaïs Sabatini are elected.
They join LR senators Chantal Deseyne, Catherine Di Folco, Antoine Lefèvre, socialist Jean-Luc Fichet, centrist Evelyne Perrot and independent Teva Rohfritsch.
The CJR, an institution created in 1993, competent to hold members of the government criminally responsible for acts (crimes or misdemeanors) committed in the exercise of their functions, is made up of 12 parliamentarians (six elected by the National Assembly, six elected by the Senate ) and three judges from the seat of the Court of Cassation.
Twelve elected parliamentarians
Institution questioned for the slowness of its procedures and the leniency of its trials, the CJR almost disappeared in 2018 under the first term of Emmanuel Macron, but the constitutional bill did not come to an end.
Since its creation, it has tried seven ministers: three were acquitted, two were given suspended sentences and two were found guilty but released from punishment.
The Court of Justice of the Republic opened an investigation in July 2020 into the handling by the authorities of the coronavirus epidemic after several complaints. In this case, former Health Minister Agnès Buzyn was charged on September 10 with “endangering the lives of others” and placed under the more favorable status of assisted witness for “voluntary refraining from fighting a claim.”
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, Health Minister Olivier Véran and former government spokesperson Sibeth Ndiaye are also cited in the CJR judicial information.
Source: BFM TV
