Live: France’s Le Pen vows to fight election ban, says verdict ‘violates rule of law’
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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…

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.

  • FurryMemesAccountEnglish
    7·
    16 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

    • dbkblk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

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

      • FurryMemesAccountEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

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