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Marine Le Pen was leading in the polls for the 2027 French presidential election, but that doesn’t matter anymore: on Monday, a judge in Paris found her guilty of misappropriating European Union funds. She has been sentenced to prison (although she will apparently not serve her sentence behind bars but by the practically equal humiliation of wearing an ankle bracelet, as if she were a career criminal whose whereabouts needed to be constantly monitored), a substantial fine, and most significantly of all, a ban on political activity for five years. That means that she can’t run for president in 2027. Not coincidentally, Le Pen is also the chief critic of France’s leftist political …
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