The state of Maine, in the northeastern United States, announced on Thursday that the tycoon Donald Trump will not appear in the 2024 Republican primariesa week after a similar decision in Colorado, regarding the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

“He is not qualified to be president” under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which excludes from public responsibility those who have participated in acts of “revoltShenna Bellows, the Maine secretary of state charged with organizing the election, said in an official document.

Maine’s decision will be challenged in court by Trump, his campaign spokesman announced, and could be the subject of a final appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Trump quickly condemned a decision he said was made by “a radical leftist‘, who was an ‘ardent supporter’ of it Joe Biden.

“We are witnessing live an attempted theft of elections and the disenfranchisement of the American voter,” the Republican denounced through his campaign team.

On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol, the shrine of American democracy, in an attempt to prevent the certification of his Democratic opponent Biden’s victory.

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

The former president was indicted at the federal level on August 1 and then charged by the state of Georgia on August 14 with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Various procedures have been initiated in various states of the country to block the path of the clear favorite in the Republican primaries.

While Michigan and Minnesota have rejected them, the Colorado Supreme Court was the first, last week, by holding Trump ineligible for his actions during the attack on the Capitol. (JO)