BREAKING:
French court sentences Marine Le Pen to 4 years in prison, 2 of which will be served in house arrest with an ankle monitor.
She is also banned from running in the presidential election in 2027, which she is currently the favourite to win acclaimed to opinion polls. pic.twitter.com/d8EwulwB0s
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Marine Le Pen Found Guilty of Embezzlement, Barred From Running for President.
‘Is France still a democracy?’
…The dramatic judicial intervention into the French presidential campaign is threatening to deny to voters the choice of the candidate who is ahead in all opinion polls. On the news channels this lunchtime, the question was being posed: is France still a democracy?
According to what I have learned of the European Union’s definition by watching the political lurching and machinations on the continent these past couple of years, it most assuredly is.
Granted, I am looking at this through American eyes, but, man, do I have a cynical squint on right now.
Next up, wondering what the average French citizen in the street thinks of it.
They’re normally not too shy about letting anyone know how they feel.
But, boy — I hope they’ve got those fire trucks filled.
Has French democracy been ‘executed?’ “There may be other more immediate repercussions. Le Pen’s party could join the left in bringing a motion of no confidence in Bayrou’s coalition government. They did it in December, to topple Michel Barnier, but this year she has been more conciliatory. Not now. Le Pen may be gone, but her party will probably benefit from this judgement. The anger of her 11 million voters is likely to go from simmering to seething in the days and weeks ahead. Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, reacted to the verdict by tweeting ‘Je Suis Marine.’ France may not have heard the last of that battle cry.”