François Bayrou launched MoDem's back-to-school university Friday evening in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, with former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve among the guests, while Marine Le Pen made a push for lower fuel taxes.
Before the appeals court, former MEP Thierry Cornillet defended the hiring of parliamentary assistants who claim they never actually worked for him, invoking the role of François Bayrou's former right-hand woman, who died in 2021.
Two years after a first-instance trial that resulted in several convictions, the MoDem European parliamentary assistants case is returning to court on appeal, according to France 24.
Two years after an initial trial that saw him acquitted, the former Prime Minister and founder of MoDem must face an appeal procedure in the European parliamentary assistants case.
The former prime minister, acquitted at first instance in 2024, appears before the Paris Court of Appeal alongside ten other defendants.