A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions of standing in the next presidential race.

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    8 days ago

    Only for five years, and only if it will not see an appeal. Still, it’s a good start.

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      8 days ago

      The verdict will stay in place even if she goes for an appeal. It can only be lifted if she actually wins the appeal but the chances of that are practically zero given the evidence.

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    8 days ago

    Now it’s time to clean up the other thousands of elected officials corrupting the French political sphere…

    Source: I’m a local

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      8 days ago

      Exactly, but the current government tried several times to block Anticor, which is a protection for us against corruption.

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        7 days ago

        They’re gonna have a difficult upcoming few weeks, I wish them strength…