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.
Anything that puts an obstacle between Nazis and power is a good thing.
With the far right not being able to vote for their more popular figure it may give the french left an edge over macron since he wont be able to push the lesser evil in the future election
Macron would hopefully be the clear “lesser evil” then but im worried about the potential of sucdem shenanigans now within the two years until the election.
hon hon hon
Now it’s her daughter’s turn I guess.
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