French prosecutors seek to ban Marine Le Pen from office, jeopardizing her 2027 presidential bid

https://apnews.com/article/marine-le-pen-appeal-trial-france-presidential-election-726408584ad5126901fd101f6ccf47d9

29 Comments

  1. Probably won’t happen as the gov needs a scarecrow and national wanker Bardela is not going to win a lot of votes… too much energy.

  2. Chirac and Sarkozy come to mind. 

    The French haven’t had much luck with their modern day presidents, they’d be avoiding another case of rotten apple if they ban Marine… 

    And don’t forget, “mangez des pommes” otherwise you’ll be looking around at eachother saying “On m’aurait mentis?!?” (Virenque)

  3. I think her party has some popularity while Le Pen herself is a bit controversial. It’d probably be to the benefit of the French Right to not have to have her in play anymore, and then they can run on the prosecution.

  4. Calm-Scallion-8540 on

    They will condemn her, but without preventing her from running, hoping to secure leadership within the far right, which will once again leave the path clear for the center-right…

  5. More precisely: French prosecutors seek to confirm the ban of Marine Le Pen from office (and the other sentences), which was decided in a previous trial as a (quite lenient) application of the law (which was supported by her and her party).

  6. Powerful-Prompt4123 on

    Sad, in principle. Anyone should be able to run for elections in a democracy. Let the voters decide. In principle…

  7. Odd-Professor-5309 on

    Perhaps she will retire to Russia and join her friends.

    She may end up neighbours with Putin and Assad.

  8. Midly surprisingly…the guy who will replace her if she can’t run currently makes better scores than her in recent polls.

  9. This is what should’ve happened to Trump after January 6th. The fact that he was allowed to run again is a disgrace. America is such a joke of a democracy.

  10. Sketti_n_butter on

    Do it, France. Don’t be like the US. We fucked up electing a fascist fuckhead. Save your government or else your government will start disappearing protesters like they are in the US. Best of luck.

  11. Trump got prosecuted and convicted, they chose to not do something about that. Thats a scary exhibit A. Far rights are a plague in this world.

  12. SensitiveExtremity on

    I hope the released Epstein files will at least help dismantle Russia’s right wing politician network across Europe, if nothing else.

  13. The French can look at us Americans and see the dumpster fire that happens when you don’t bar people like her/him from office.

  14. Iambetterthanuhaha on

    They are worried she might win….have to shut her down now before she gets a chance. No wonder people buy into “rigged” elections!

  15. iloovehugecock on

    Centrist and left wing parties really need to start tightening the screws on these traitors and quislings trying to subvert democracy everywhere.

    Right wing political parties are clearly collaborating in sneaky and undemocratic ways, such as the Trump admin piling pressure on France for daring to uphold its own laws and customs (and interfering in other places where right wing parties are being held accountable for breaking laws).

    The other parties need to recognise that the far right is collaborating to overthrow democracy everywhere. They’re literally working to end the current system we live under and entrench us in whatever technofascist system they have imagined up. They want to cement oligarchy/tech bro rule over all of us, prevent wealth from ever trickling down, halt any laws and policies that protect workers and improve equality… the list goes on as to how evil and demented these people are.

    We really are at a turning point in mankind’s history and if we let these fascists win we will never see peace again. They’ll march us all to death either by war, rampant inequality, environmental destruction and all the other backwards ideas they have. Or, we can take the fight to them and stomp them down like we did 80 years ago, except hopefully this time will be permanent.