‘Political Death Sentence’ Populist Marine Le Pen Banned From Running in French Presidential Election by Court – IOTW Report

‘Political Death Sentence’ Populist Marine Le Pen Banned From Running in French Presidential Election by Court

Breitbart: A Paris court ruled Monday that National Rally leader Marine Le Pen will be ineligible to run for public office for five years, likely including in the upcoming presidential race, after being found guilty of embezzlement of European Union funds.

A “political death sentence” has been handed out to three-time presidential candidate and current frontrunner in the race to replace President Emmanuel Macron in 2027, Marine Le Pen.

The Paris court found that Le Pen, along with eight other National Rally Members of the European Parliament, had embezzled 2.9 million euros in funds intended for parliamentary assistants for the party in Strasbourg on political operations in France. The court’s president found Le Pen personally guilty of embezzling 474,000 euros, Le Monde reported.

Le Figaro reports that she was sentenced to four years imprisonment, which will likely be served on probation with an electronic tag rather than in jail, a fine of 100,000 euros, and five years of ineligibility from running for public office.

Without waiting to hear the details of her sentence, Le Pen stormed out of the courtroom “visibly exasperated” and returned to her National Rally party headquarters in Paris. more

12 Comments on ‘Political Death Sentence’ Populist Marine Le Pen Banned From Running in French Presidential Election by Court

  1. How many opposition pols have now been banned from running workdwide? They tried to prevent Trump. They hamstrung Bolsonaro. They cancelled elections and overturned results in Europe. Our dear democracy-loving friend Ukraine banned opposition, and cancelled elections.

    Seems like a pattern.

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  2. Socialist/Marxist/Communist dictator wannabees don’t like any competition. They don’t like the idea of putting God, Jesus Christ and certainly not a competent Capitalist before them!

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  3. I know for a fact there a couple 100 thousand pissed off Medieval French Knights spinning in their graves at what France has become. A small contingent of said men would clean out the streets and Vichey in short order.

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  4. Does France allow write-in voting?
    Even if LePen isn’t allowed to win, or sit in office, it might just send a message.
    I wonder how TPTB would feel about large sections of the country “quiet quitting”?

  5. It’s not too late to sign on as a mercenary for Yookraine!

    Fight for democracy! Fight for free speech! (bwa ha)
    Die for European values !!!!!

    (they tried to assasinate Fiso, they overturned elections in Ukraine first, then recently Georgia, Romania… thank God for Urban in Hungary who slows their roll a bit)

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