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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthquake
« on: March 31, 2025, 03:29:22 pm »


Oh, yes, of course she's "FAR-RIGHT." It's the Associated Press, after all.
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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthquake
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says that a ruling barring her from seeking public office is ‘political’ and aims to prevent her from running for president in 2027
By SYLVIE CORBET and JOHN LEICESTER – Associated Press via Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Updated 52 minutes ago, March 31, 2025

PARIS (AP) — A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years — a hammer blow to the far-right leader's presidential hopes and an earthquake for French politics.

Speaking to French TV channel TF1 in her first reaction to the verdict, Le Pen called the ruling a “political” move aimed at preventing her from running in the 2027 presidential election and said that millions of French people “are outraged."

She called the verdict a violation of the rule of law, said she would appeal and asked that the court proceedings take place before the 2027 campaign. She would remain ineligible to be a candidate until the appeal is decided.

Le Pen also was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, with two to be served under house arrest and two suspended. ...
Time for the cheese-eating surrender monkeys to wake up and decided whether they want freedom or tyranny.
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2025, 03:49:51 pm »
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Unreal. They took out the opposition. Marine Le Pen, who is currently leading in opinion polls for the 2027 election in France, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison and banned from running in the next election.
8:09 AM · Mar 31, 2025

I guess they learned this trick from the Biden DOJ.
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2025, 04:41:02 pm »
I'll go out on the limb and make a prediction that come next election there, she may run anyway.

This is right out of the playbook that is being used in -- is it Romania? -- to keep a populist candidate off the ballot (if I'm not mistaken, and I welcome correction)...
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2025, 04:49:02 pm »
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2025, 05:13:48 pm »
THIS was Marine Le Pen winning her first round as France outright rejected WEF’s Macron. THIS is why they’re banning her from elections and why she’s being sent to Prison.

https://twitter.com/liz_churchill10/status/1906759180708364459
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2025, 05:14:20 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on March 31, 2025, 03:29:22 pm


Oh, yes, of course she's "FAR-RIGHT." It's the Associated Press, after all.Time for the cheese-eating surrender monkeys to wake up and decided whether they want freedom or tyranny.

What is she charged with?
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2025, 06:22:29 pm »
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What is she charged with?
Something to do with embezzling campaign funds - the posted article explains.
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2025, 09:04:35 pm »
Je suis Marine!
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2025, 08:42:50 am »
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Marine Le Pen in France, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Imran Khan in Pakistan, Matteo Salvini in Italy, Donald Trump in America, Calin Georgescu in Romania
The criminal prosecution of every populist challenger is a dagger in the heart of the credibility of democracy.
8:20 AM · Mar 31, 2025

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It's just a huge coincidence that the poll-leading right-wing populists candidates all commit crimes just in the nick of time to ban them from the ballot, while the establishment's preferred candidates are all super-law-abiding, clean and filled with integrity
12:19 PM · Mar 31, 2025
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2025, 09:59:16 am »
This is selective prosecution, a matter from which she did not personally benefit, and decades old.  Our NATO allies do not believe in democracy, and they have proven this time and again.  Just look at what is happening in Turkey. 
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2025, 06:26:37 pm »
France - like Great Britain - is destroying herself.
This is what Paris will look like very soon:

https://twitter.com/UpdateNews724/status/1907147292404052321
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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2025, 05:31:09 pm »
And, now this from our treasured European allies who allow us to pay their bills, finance their disputes,  embrace their tariffs on us --- while they distance themselves from the tenents of freedom.

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Re: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthq
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2025, 06:54:19 pm »
Looks like her future still is in doubt.
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It looks like Le Pen will be the next French PM.
Her judgment has been deferred on appeal until next summer. The 3 judges who jailed her have had to go into hiding with protection.
20 thousand new members have just joined her party.
8:34 AM · Apr 4, 2025

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Her appeal has postponed the presidential ban until next summer, but unfortunately, the current ban still prevents her from running for Prime Minister. According to Reuters, it is true that the judges are facing 'virulent reactions.' Her conviction has sparked significant backlash, with over 600,000 French citizens signing petitions for her release.

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Overall, the claim contains a mix of plausible, speculative, and unverified elements.. I don't trust it...
3:42 PM · Apr 4, 2025

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