The American state of Maine announced on Thursday that Donald Trump will not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary election in the 2024 presidential election, a week after a similar decision in the state of Colorado in connection with the storming of the Capitol building in 2021, AFP reports, citing Agerpres

“He is unfit to be president” under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which exempts from public accountability those who have engaged in acts of “insurrection,” Maine Democratic Party Secretary Shanna Bellows said in a statement. , responsible for organizing elections.

The decision in Maine will be challenged in court by Donald Trump, a spokesman for his campaign team said, and could be subject to an eventual appeal to the United States Supreme Court.

Donald Trump quickly condemned the decision in Maine.

“We are watching live an attempt to steal the election and deprive the American voter of his right to vote,” Donald Trump condemned through his campaign team.

On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building to try to prevent the confirmation of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden’s victory.

Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters continue to dispute the results of the 2020 election without evidence.

The former president was indicted federally on August 1st and then on August 14th in the state of Georgia, accused of trying to change the results of the 2020 election.

In several states, procedures have begun to block the path of the heavy favorite in the Republican primaries. If they were rejected in Michigan and Minnesota, then the Supreme Court of Colorado was the first, last week, to recognize Donald Trump as illegal for his actions during the attack on the Capitol.