Marine Le Pen, Dozens of Far Right Party Officials Convicted of Embezzlement

[BeaverFever]

Just the latest of several darlings of Republicans and the international  populist far-right to end up behind bars, after Bolsonaro was jailed for his failed coup plot in Brazil and Duterte’s arrest for numerous extrajudicial killings he ordered while president of the Philippines.
 

French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office

 

 

A French court handed far-right leader Marine Le Pen a five-year ban on running for office on embezzlement charges Monday, dashing her ambitions of standing in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals. She also received a four-year prison sentence. Follow our liveblog to see how events unfold. 

A French court found Marine Le Pen guilty Monday in an embezzlement case and followed up the verdict with a sentence barring her immediately from running for office for five years. Le Pen abruptly left the Paris courtroom before hearing how long she will be banned from running for public office.

Le Pen and 24 other officials from her National Rally were accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27-nation bloc’s regulations.

 

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[User]

Absolute insanity. 

France's most popular and likely next leader is found guilty on some specious charges and banned from running for office?

Yeah... seems real legit. 

 

 

[herbie]

Imagine that, a Court and govt not consisting of cowering chickenshits!

[Scott75]

1 hour ago, User said:

Absolute insanity. 

France's most popular and likely next leader is found guilty on some specious charges and banned from running for office?

Yeah... seems real legit. 

I too am suspicious. Some articles whose authors are also suspicious of all these right wing politicians being charged, and not just in France. First, on French politician Marie Le Pen:

https://www.eurosiberia.net/p/le-pen-and-the-guillotine-of-democracy

Then some articles on the corruption in Moldova over the past few years, culminating this week in arrests of right wing politicians. The first 2 articles are from small site, but ofcourse the headlines in the mainstream media only focuses on the flashy arrests:

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/18/leaked-recordings-state-corruption-moldova/

https://scheerpost.com/2024/12/21/the-wests-romance-with-elections-is-dead-the-rules-based-order-killed-it/

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-03-31/moldova-says-russia-helped-pro-moscow-mp-flee-long-jail-sentence

[BeaverFever]

On 3/31/2025 at 2:18 PM, User said:

Absolute insanity. 

France's most popular and likely next leader is found guilty on some specious charges and banned from running for office?

Yeah... seems real legit. 

 

 

The charges are not specious why must you nutbars scream conspiracy every time reality is inconvenient to your political ideology?

[User]

On 4/14/2025 at 8:31 AM, BeaverFever said:

The charges are not specious why must you nutbars scream conspiracy every time reality is inconvenient to your political ideology?

Nothing conspiracy about it nor am I a nutbar. 

 

[BeaverFever]

On 4/15/2025 at 10:53 AM, User said:

Nothing conspiracy about it nor am I a nutbar. 

 

The charges have been proven in court you are alleging conspiracies with no evidence. Sounds pretty nutty. 

Edited April 17 by BeaverFever

[User]

4 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

The charges have been proven in court you are alleging conspiracies with no evidence. Sounds pretty nutty. 

You are the one who injected the term conspiracy. LOL