The LE-Pen judgment rummages France-and ensures mass protests
A touch of election campaign is in the air in Paris on this warm Sunday afternoon in early April 2025. France-Flags blow, fiery speeches speeches in different corners of the French metropolis.
It is exactly two years until the next presidential election, but the French television station BFMTV describes this Sunday as the « starting shot » of the campaign. Many believe that the battle for the election of the elections in France was initiated last Monday when a Paris court was the right -wing extremist Marine Le Pen because of embezzlement owe guilty of EU funds, sentenced to a cash and a prison sentence and a ban on starting in the next five years in elections- the latter with immediate effect. Since then, Le Pen and her followers have declared war on the judiciary system. She is not a perpetrator, but sacrifice, the front woman of the right -wing extremist racial nation (marginal) announced martial, also on this mild spring day in Paris. With the former US freedom fighter Martin Luther King, she compares herself, as before with the killed Russian opposition politician Alexej Nawalny.
Dispute over the number of participants in LE-Pen-demo
More than 10,000 people came to the Vauban Square in the southwest of Paris, behind the Invalid Dome and a few hundred meters from the Eiffel Tower, calls The head of her right -wing extremist party National (RN), Jordan Bardella. « They wanted to wipe out a voice, they woke up the people of France. » French media gave the number 10,000 exaggerated: the place that grasp as many people is not completely filled.
The fact that Le Pen, 23 other co-accused from her party was found to be guilty of breed emblems nationally (RN) and as a legal person by the court to have misappropriated money for the EU Parliament for party purposes for years, is a « provocation ». For days, Bardella, Le Pen and her colleagues have been betting against a supposed « tyranny of the judges », against which it has to be defended. « We heard the reputation of Marine Le Pen so that the family of the patriots in Paris come together, » says Brice Bernard, RN regional consultant, who started in the center of the country with around 40 co-rider from Chambéry in the center of the country.
The left camp brings 15,000 people on the street against Le Pen
This is exactly what the opposing camp wants to defend the rule of law on the opposite side of Paris: on the square of the Republic, traditionally meeting point of the left warehouse, according to the organizers, 15,000 people have gathered to call up several left -wing parties, unions and non -governmental organizations. It is about showing presence, the head of the French Greens, Marine Tondelier, explained the initiative. « I don’t want Marine Le Pens great attempt to be seen on all television channels on Sunday to show himself in the victim role. » Although the RN MPs demonstratively occur with ties in the National Assembly, they are dangerous, warns Manuel Bombard, one of the front figures of the La France Insoumise Left Party (LFI). « It is a violent party that threatens the judges if the decisions made did not fit her. »
Producing television pictures at the same time in Saint-Denis in the north of Paris representatives of the Renaissance government party and its partners. Their meeting was planned for a long time, but given a different grade in view of the current events, also a new title: « To defend democracy, the republic and our values ». It is important to protect the French institutions, says Renaissance party leader Gabriel Attal. « We will never qualify a decision of the judiciary. » In addition to Attal, the current Prime Minister François Bayrou and Édouard Philippe, first head of government under President Emmanuel Macron. Ambitions for the victory of the 2027 presidential election are said to all.
Fight for sovereignty on all sides
All French parties are already fighting for the sovereignty of the consequent judge’s decision against Le Pen. According to initial surveys, a majority of people in France agree to the conviction and the exclusion of the right -wing populist from the next elections. At the same time, you and Bardella remain extremely popular in other surveys. The decisive factor will be the appeal process, which is to be ended by an unusual acceleration by the middle of next year. In view of the serious allegations, people may have deteriorated opportunities, even if they could still compete in the first instance by lifting the judgment.
