France: 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 due to the apparent employment of employees in the European Parliament, the court in Paris imposed the punishment of the unexpectedness for political positions for five years.

In addition, the court sentenced the 56-year-old to two years in prison with electronic ankle bondage. Two more years in prison were suspended. In addition, a fine of 100,000 euros was imposed. Before the presiding judge announced the complete judgment and the complete punishment against Le Pen, the politician left the courtroom.

The judgment can be challenged. However, it is generally unlikely that an appeal process would come to a quick result.

The result of the process is a disaster for the right party and le with political ambitions. The temporary loss of passive voting rights is a common punishment in France 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 required with preliminary enforcement, and I believe that from the beginning, I think that from the beginning, Le Pen reacted to the request of the indictment to temporarily implement her notisability 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.

The central accusation in the process 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.

With a view to the prison sentence with ankle, the exact design of the punishment was initially unclear. However, it is common practice that this is only done when the judgment is final. France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy is currently sitting a prison sentence with an ankle fessel at home and has been imposed on strict starting restrictions.

Racial emblems nationally than ever

The right -wing party in France will hit the debacle in court at an unfavorable moment, because for a while it has been constantly represented on the advance and in parliament for a while. The right-wing extremist Front National, founded by her recently died father Jean-Marie, named Marine Le Pen 2018 in racial emblems nationally and waived too radical positions in order to make them selectable in broader layers of the population.

The previous plan had been that in a victory in the presidential election and a victory of her party in the subsequent parliamentary election, RN boss Jordan Bardella (29) would have been prime minister. 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 12 parliamentary assistants. In the room there was the possible sham activity of assistants by several French MEPs.