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Is Trump now going to demand that the French government pardon her?
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.
I wonder if she'll write a book about her struggle
Ma Lutte?
Sounds like a medieval guitar.
Good, she’s an awful person.
…
She can steal appeal. Hope she loses harder then.
I feel shocked.
/s
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.
She's not going to prison, she gets an ankle monitor and house arrest I believe.
So many good news rolling in today
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.
It could but it also might end up as a Trump situation
If she's banned from running it will be the first instance of a western liberal country reacting appropriately to the resurgence of fascism. Good on France.
Nah, not the first.
Well, she still committed financial fraud. It's more the judiciary doing its job. Sarkozy was also convicted after his presidency.
I'm worried/curious if macron would try to pardon her or find another way to allow her to stay in after he ran to them for help after the last election
Yeah, if only other Western countries barred politicians from running or holding office if they’ve been convicted of a crime…
Instead, the US bars people from voting!
The appropriate reaction would be to ban them for being fucking fascists, not for some incidental crime they happened to commit.
Ohh edgy
Damn, that's good. Thanks!
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.
"pfffft...amateur." (Donald Trump, probably)
She needs the trump guide on how to not give a fuck and run anyway. /s
"could" end it.
Are we cooked as a species? Embezzlement is a pretty big crime. She should be going to jail and it should most definitely end her political aspirations
Same way Trump's "political aspirations" need to be ended
This is about France and not the USA.
I thought this was about the human species being cooked.
Classic right wing thinking means that for them, the morally righteous can do no wrong, so convictions of embezzlement don't matter. Laws are there only to punish the undeserving, meaning everyone not in the in-group.
Of all countries on earth to try that hierarchy bullshit.
The one that famously guillotined the hierarchy.
The liberals should be upholding the law and throw these people in jail. If fraud pays, of course the right wingers will abuse it.
Nah, being convicted is for minorities and the poor.
That said, I'm not sure if she's rich so maybe?
4 years. Let's see how it plays out.