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A French court found Marine Le Pen guilty Monday in an embezzlement case and followed up the verdict with a sentence barring her immediately from running for office for five years. Le Pen abruptly left the Paris courtroom before hearing how long she will be banned from running for public office.
Le Pen and 24 other officials from her National Rally were accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27-nation bloc’s regulations. Le Pen and her co-defendants deny wrongdoing.
The biggest concern for Le Pen was that the court may declare her ineligible to run for office preventing her from running for president in 2027 – a scenario she had described as a “political death.”
The Constitutional Council ruled Friday, in a separate case, that imposing the punishment immediately was constitutional.
Definitely. Macron is jumping gleefully at this.
Micron’s gotta stay in power somehow. :)
I still think this is good news though. Should help the far-right lose momentum. But then again it’s getting harder all the time to distinguish them from the ‘moderate’ right.
I don’t think this is going to cause far-right to lose momentum, if anything we should expect the opposite to happen because everybody can see this was politically motivated. The reason far-right is gaining momentum is because the standard of living is collapsing due to neoliberal policies. Since liberals have no actual solution to this problem the disenfranchisement will continue to grow. Le Pen will just get replaced with somebody else and the same people who support her will rally behind them instead.