Go on France, fight the fascists. 😀
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She isn't banned from running because she is fascist, but because she is corrupt.
That standard should still deal with plenty of the fascists, if consistently applied. Only the decent, honest, law-abiding fascists will slip through.
woohoo no fascists then
Be careful, you wrote the same word twice there.
If you’re contemplating whether this was a good move or not consider this:
Kremlin condemned this immediately.
So this is a good thing 👍🏻
Arresting politicians who commit crimes. What a concept
France continues to be the older sister that America fails to live up to.
Man, imagine banning people convicted of crimes of corruption from the government.
Sounds like totalitarian woke leftist beta snowflake bullshit to me
Judges handed Le Pen a five-year ban on running for public office with the added provision that it would take immediate effect. It will apply even if she appeals.
Le Pen, who left the court before the hearing had finished, was also sentenced to four years in prison with two years suspended and and the other two to be served outside jail with an electronic bracelet. She was handed a €100,000 (£84,000) fine. Neither the prison penalty nor fine will be applied until her appeals are exhausted.
Ah, JUSTICE! /s
Capitalism and the injustice system reveal themselves in the weak-ass "justice" handed out to the rich.
- https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2025/03/186479/moroccan-father-deported-after-24-years-in-france/
- https://www.courthousenews.com/french-national-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-for-stealing-1-8-million-from-california-controller-office/
- https://news.artnet.com/art-world/spider-man-thief-prison-sentence-paris-art-heist-867287
Seems like a light punishment that will allow her to run after the 4 year ban runs out. And conservatives love the persecution angle and having victim complexes. Corruption should bar you from a government position forever.
so should being an outright fascist, but
100%
Wait... you can do that??
Any French commenters able to contextualize this news for the rest of us? Le Pen's party has been gaining popularity in recent years, if I recall correctly. How is this likely to impact them? Are they organized enough to continue on without her, or is this likely to seriously hurt their electoral chances?
It's always good to see a fascist lose but I'm not tuned in enough to French politics to know the full significance of this.
If by recent years, you mean the last 20+ years, sure.
I'm not sure it truly hurts the Front National chances in 2027, however, the expected heir, Jordan Bardella, is not nearly as smart as MLP, so maybe it will make enough of a difference if it ends up a close thing. I would say the political situation in France is pretty volatile, hard to say what it will look like in 2 years.
There is also the possibility (slim, imho, but still real) of MLP either winning her appeal (which should take place sometime in 2026), or at least having the ineligibility sanction removed, which I think would give her a huge boost.
Read somewhere that the appeals procedure would need to be sped up for it to finish before the 2027 elections, so they're gonna do that?
For just the appeal I don't think anyone would need to rush anything to have it done before 2027, if it goes to cassation and beyond it probably would need to be rushed somehow for it to happen before 2027
Financing parties is complicated by design as the French system tries to avoid interference from companies or wealthy individuals. RN was struggling because they are greedy incompetent pigs. So they decided collectively to use the money dedicated by the European parliament to recruit parliamentary assistants to finance the party's activities. And they got caught.
This won't affect their chances as racist voters will still vote for racist candidates, whatever the candidate. We will just have a new racist guy (Jordan Bardella) instead of Le Pen.
It's not so recent. Her father was in the second turn of the presidential election in 2002. Still the RN (rassemblement National) far right party is bigger than ever with 123 elected member in the National assembly (out of 575). They don't really have a back up. She took the reigns from her father, she is the name of the party. The second (Bardella) is young and inapt, and he also has some problem with the law (fake work)
Just asking for a friend. Did they stop public beheadings in France.....
( Please note, this is just an awful joke. In no way do I advocate the death sentence. in any shape or form.)
They did - the last one was in 1977 though, which really isn't that long ago!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi?wprov=sfla1
EDIT - wait, you said public beheading. That was in 1939 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Weidmann?wprov=sfla1
What we usually say is that the last one was after the release of Star Wars
Not sure why I find that more disturbing than just the date! Probably because it links to something so very wonderful.
Maybe
But anyway the whole beheading fact is less impactful in an international channel since for example the US still has death penalty
Nah she deserves it tho
May her body reach room temperature expediently.
Considering we chose to have no consequences for our felon ex-president, this seems like the better route to go...