Summary
A French court found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling over €3 million in EU funds, potentially ending her 2027 presidential bid.
The judge ruled Le Pen and 24 others misused European Parliament funds between 2004 and 2016 to pay National Rally party staff, calling it a deliberate scheme, not an error.
Prosecutors had sought five years’ prison and a public office ban. Even with an appeal, a provisional execution could bar her candidacy.
So many good news rolling in today
Good, she’s an awful person.
The fascist who could have ended the French republic and turned it into a fascist state being done in by an embezzlement charge sounds like an insult.
I feel shocked.
/s
I wonder if she’ll write a book about her struggle
Ma Lutte?
Sounds like a medieval guitar.
Well, as a politician the more your disrespect law the more you are likely to be elected (hi Sarkozy, hi Trump)
provisional execution could bar her candidacy.
Well, execution will definitely put a crimp in her political plans.
She can steal appeal. Hope she loses harder then.
Is Trump now going to demand that the French government pardon her?
Wait, being convicted ends political careers? Hitler and Trump wore their convictions with honor and used them to gin up support to great effect. Who’s to say Le Pen doesn’t somehow do the same?
5 years ineligibility means she can’t run for president in 2027 or for another MP seat. It means others will take over and gain visibility over her.
And 2 years in prison is going to cook her career prospects too.
Yea, 2 years house arrest. Big deal.
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Let’s hope the French justice system is more competent than the US one.
Ask sarkozy
Wait, y’all can just convict a right-wing political figure and like, get rid of them? Forever?
We gotta check our math, I think we did something wrong over here.
Yeah. It was reconstruction where we never held the south to account for their treasonous actions.
Lol of course not. She’ll be right back in five years. And people will vote for her again.
I heard that Trump jumped up and down and threw his juice box when JD explained he couldn’t pardon her.
Wait, y’all can just convict a right-wing political figure and like, get rid of them? Forever?
Maybe. We’ll see if this is a real prosecution or just French Mueller Time.
The French know what’s up. As per usual.
I… I didn’t know you could do that.
What? Another ‘conservative’ who is a criminal? Shocked! Shocked I say!
She’s not your average conservative. She’s an actual fascist – linked with Orbán, Trump, Meloni, received millions from Putin, and her party was formed by and still includes numerous nazis, regardless of her rebranding efforts. This goes both for the founding members and the current recruits.
Maybe not an average conservative in France, but pretty spot-on for a conservative in the U.S.
Because what the US call conservative is what the EU calls far-right. EU conservatives, or traditional right, are similar to your average Democrat.
The original conservatives were in De Gaulle’s party, which was ferociously anti-nazi.
Although, naturally, as a conservative party they’re now talking about immigration, restricting liberties and the like…
Still a far cry from what Le Pen is up to.
And Meloni, please gals and guys, never forget Meloni. I know she looks like an ugly Chihuahua, but she bites much more than she barks.
You’re right… I fixed it.
Meloni, one L.
Damn, that’s good. Thanks!
Ohh edgy
