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submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions of standing in the next presidential race.

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[-] jhymesba@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

Man, wouldn't it be nice if our courts would do the same for our far-right leaders?

[-] Cocopanda@futurology.today 2 points 1 week ago

France burns their constitution and starts over every 15 years it seems. No way we could do that without Billionaires buying influence and removing more of our rights.

Man what country are you even taking about, what a sad world to live in.

[-] jhymesba@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Heh, I'm noticing that. For clarification, I'm in the USA.

[-] softcat@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

Only for five years, and only if it will not see an appeal. Still, it's a good start.

[-] Phytobus@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

The verdict will stay in place even if she goes for an appeal. It can only be lifted if she actually wins the appeal but the chances of that are practically zero given the evidence.

[-] FurryMemesAccount 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now it's time to clean up the other thousands of elected officials corrupting the French political sphere...

Source: I'm a local

[-] dbkblk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Exactly, but the current government tried several times to block Anticor, which is a protection for us against corruption.

[-] FurryMemesAccount 2 points 1 week ago

They're gonna have a difficult upcoming few weeks, I wish them strength...

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