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The future of the far-right leader Marine Le Pen – and France’s political landscape – will be decided on Monday when a court hands down its verdict on charges she and party officials embezzled money from the European parliament.
If convicted, the three-time presidential candidate of the National Rally (RN) could be barred from standing to succeed Emmanuel Macron in the 2027 presidential election.
Public prosecutors have demanded Le Pen be given a €300,000 (£250,000) fine, a prison sentence and that she be prevented from holding or seeking to hold a political position or five years.
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From an Aussie who’s only just hearing about this now (how the hell did I miss this?), what kind of chances are there of a conviction here? How’s the evidence?
If she gets convicted but remains eligible, that’s a biiiig problem…
That’s gonna be our 6th of January if she doesn’t become ineligible. She has very high chances of winning in 2027.
Scary time, hopefully France do the right thing or else it might be the end of Europe.
Scary times indeed, and sadly even if the right thing is done, those fuckheads have a successor at the ready, with a boosted mediatic presence, so I fear that either way it won’t change much.
Fuck that lady
For everyone saying it’ll be the end if she isn’t forbidden to run against macrons successor, it would just be a band aid on the wound to forbid her to run IMO (though I do hope she gets a lenghty prison time, together with Sarkozy because fuck those anti democratic assholes).
What France really needs is someone to step up to the job when macron leaves, there is no one either to the right nor to the left IMO.
