France’s Le Pen vows to fight election ban, says verdict ‘violates rule of law’
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A French court handed far-right leader Marine Le Pen a five-year ban on running for office and four years’ imprisonment on embezzlement charges Monday. Calling the ruling as a “dark day” for democracy,…

A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions of standing in the next presidential race.

    • BestBouclettes@jlai.luEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Funnily enough, they keep complaining that French justice is too lax. But now that they’ve been convicted (by a law they partly wrote and voted for) it’s unfair and undemocratic. Fuck them

      • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        No because we’re way too lenient with those people. I’m hoping the AfD as a whole gets banned during the next administration but I kinda doubt they’ll go through with it.