Legally national politician Le Pen can no longer compete in elections from now on
The right -wing French politician Marine Le Pen is likely to be able to run in the 2027 presidential election. After a guilty verdict for embezzlement of funds through the apparent employment of employees in the European Parliament, the court imposed in Paris With immediate effect, the punishment of temporary unality for political offices.
The judgment can be challenged. However, it is generally unlikely that an appeal process would come to a quick result. Before the presiding judge announced the complete judgment and the complete punishment against Le Pen, the politician left the courtroom. You also face a prison and a fine.
The result of the process is a disaster for the right party and le with political ambitions. The temporary loss of the passive right of voting is in France A common punishment if politicians are convicted of corruption and infidelity. Nevertheless, due to the great popularity of Le Pen, it is a delicate – moderate politicians had also registered concerns because it could be narrative that the judgment was politically motivated to prevent Le Pen as president.
LE PEN appeal is expected
« It is my political death that is challenged with preliminary enforcement, and I think that is the goal of this operation from the start », Le Pen reacted to the request of the indictmentto temporarily implement their incorrectness for political offices and immediately from the legal force of the judgment.
Regardless of this, Le Pen is expected to appeal against the judgment and a long way to follow through the judicial authorities. Until the end of the election period, Le Pen can continue to sit as a member of parliament, where she is the group leader.
Central accusation in the process It was that Le Pens party got racial emblems national money for parliamentary assistants from the European Parliament, but some of them had worked for the party. The affair had burdened Le Pen and her party for years.
Racial emblems nationally than ever
The right -wing party in France will hit the debacle in court in an unfavorable moment, because for a while it has been represented on the rise and in parliament as strongly as it has been. The one from yours Recently died father Jean-Marie Founded right -wing extremist Front National named Marine Le Pen 2018 in racial emblems nationally and forego it in too radical positions in order to make them selectable in broader layers of the population.
The previous plan was that in a victory Le Pens in the presidential election and a victory of her party in the following parliamentary election RN boss Jordan Bardella (29) Prime Minister would have become. It is not yet known whether Bardella wants to run for the presidency.
Le Pen always rejected allegations
Le Pen had always rejected the allegations in the affair about a possible sham activity of EU employees. « I don’t have the feeling that I have committed the slightest impact on the slightest illegality, » she said in the process. With her, eight other MPs of her party were guilty of the European Parliament, as well as twelve parliamentary assistants. In the room there was the possible sham activity of assistants by several French MEPs. (dpa)
