Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Laura Laplaud
Traveling to Tours on Tuesday, Valérie Pécresse unveiled her proposals for justice and criminal policy. She wants to increase the justice budget to 9 billion euros, or 50% more budget over five years. “Exceptional” means, promises the LR candidate for the presidential election.
“I want to make my presidency that of zero impunity and to do this, I will put in place a plan to rescue and modernize justice”, assured the candidate of the Les Républicains party in the presidential election. During a campaign trip to Tours, Valérie Pécresse emphasized justice. Among the proposals unveiled for justice and criminal policy: the recruitment of 16,000 more people and the creation of 20,000 new prison places in five years.
The recruitment of 16,000 personnel for justice
Valérie Pécresse wants to increase the justice budget to 9 billion euros, or 50% more budget over five years. The candidate speaks of “exceptional” means. Among the recruitment of 16,000 staff, she wants 6,000 more judges and clerks, 2,000 new prosecutors. “A five-year plan which will give the means to the judicial authority to judge quickly and well to judge quickly and well”, she continued.
The return of minimum sentences
The president of the Île-de-France region wants the opening of temporary detention centers to enforce short sentences and the return of minimum sentences, minimum sentences, for offenders as well as the abolition of family allowances for their relatives.
It also wishes to reduce the time taken to judge everyday offenses to less than six months and to generalize immediate appearances for flagrante delicto. So many measures to address to an electorate waiting for firmness on these issues and which constitutes for the candidate an additional angle of attack towards Emmanuel Macron.