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Le Pen Leads Poll Ahead of France’s 2027 Presidential Election – Bloomberg France’s Le Pen sentenced to jail, banned from public office – NBC News
Democratic values are being implemented in Europe yet again. Macron pulled every dirty trick in the book to hang on to power. Now there’s yet another trick of the banana republic kind.
The judge sentencing Le Pen accused her of “a democratic bypass”, but it’s pretty obvious who’s bypassing democracy here.
I’m not Marine Le Pen’s biggest fan, but she and her party had been steadily gaining momentum. And while I’m not an expert on French law, the issue here is that her aides were being paid with EU funds, but were seen as working for her party rather than the EU. And that’s something I suspect …
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