US about Marine Le Pen’s judgment: disturbing
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims to see similarities between Le Pen and US President Donald Trump.
« Exclusively of people from the political process is particularly worrying in terms of the aggressive and corrupt legal warfare directed at President Trump here in the United States, » said Tammy Bruce, spokesperson for the US Foreign Ministry.
The French Court considers that Le Pen and some 20 other party representatives have used EU funds illegally. In addition to being stopped from running for elections over the next five years, Le Pen was also sentenced to prison and fines for fraud by EU funds.
After the verdict has Le Pen received strong support from party colleagues and others, both inside and outside France.
« I am a marine, » writes, for example, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at X.
And in the United States, tech billionaire and trump advisor Elon Musk on X writes that « when the radical left cannot gain democratically, they exploit the legal system to imprison their opponents ».
Even among some From Le Pen’s opponents there is criticism of the verdict.
« It is not healthy that in a democracy be able to ban a candidate from standing in elections, » says Laurent Wauquiez from the right -wing party LR according to Le Monde.
