Yeah ok let’s see how this goes, I’ve been waiting for someone to try to just outright strip one of these far right hyper-leaders of political rights to see if it actually works. Obviously since she was leading in the polls and people who already like her will see this, probably correctly since IIRC she’s just charged with embezzling some money from the party’s european MPs (so shit that no one cares about basically), as political persecution the logical move would be to appoint a successor and have them run on how Le Pen was unjustly persecuted along with everything else she would run on, kinda like what trump did (except he slipped away from consequences). France seems like the worst case to try this though since she was so high up in the polls, if I were to guess I’d say a half charismatic successor backed by her could easily win in 2027, heck said successor could even try to do to her what she did to her father, that is present themselves as more moderate than before.
Better not take this as an easy victory imho, especially since that’s what happened back when the left coalition “won” the elections a while back.
I think in the case of portugal if this had been done to our local far-right hyper-leader from 2019-2021 it would’ve probably stamped out the parliamentary far right for a few years, and since the constitution legally prohibits “fascist” parties it should’ve been done (not that I think the far right here is actually fascist in the 20th century sense but there was a legal political argument to lawfare it away when it was less popular), nowadays though the brand “Chega” is probably strong enough to net it quite a lot of seats even if its leader goes away.
I’ll just post here what I did on the news mega
Yeah ok let’s see how this goes, I’ve been waiting for someone to try to just outright strip one of these far right hyper-leaders of political rights to see if it actually works. Obviously since she was leading in the polls and people who already like her will see this, probably correctly since IIRC she’s just charged with embezzling some money from the party’s european MPs (so shit that no one cares about basically), as political persecution the logical move would be to appoint a successor and have them run on how Le Pen was unjustly persecuted along with everything else she would run on, kinda like what trump did (except he slipped away from consequences). France seems like the worst case to try this though since she was so high up in the polls, if I were to guess I’d say a half charismatic successor backed by her could easily win in 2027, heck said successor could even try to do to her what she did to her father, that is present themselves as more moderate than before.
Better not take this as an easy victory imho, especially since that’s what happened back when the left coalition “won” the elections a while back.
I think in the case of portugal if this had been done to our local far-right hyper-leader from 2019-2021 it would’ve probably stamped out the parliamentary far right for a few years, and since the constitution legally prohibits “fascist” parties it should’ve been done (not that I think the far right here is actually fascist in the 20th century sense but there was a legal political argument to lawfare it away when it was less popular), nowadays though the brand “Chega” is probably strong enough to net it quite a lot of seats even if its leader goes away.