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Marine Le Pen’s presidential hopes could die next week. Her party hasn’t really planned for it. (www.politico.eu)
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PARIS — Monday could go down as one of the most important days in the history of the French far right.

It’s the moment judges could crush Marine Le Pen’s dream of winning the presidency, one she has never been closer to realizing, according to opinion polls. Le Pen is on trial for having participated in a scheme to embezzle funds from the European Parliament, and if found guilty could be barred from running for any public office for the next five years. The next presidential election is set for 2027.

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[–] Bogus5553@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

Finally some good news

[–] softcat@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I doubt we're that lucky.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

Let's wait until Wednesday (Monday might be too early, Tuesday is first of April)

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

Are they going to enforce it, or be like the Americans and write up a whole bunch of laws and rules and then just sit back when the president breaks them all one by one.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 8 points 1 week ago

Even if she's sentenced, her ineligibility might vanish thanks to Macron's buddy Richard Ferrand. He got magically nominated and elected at the head of our constitutional court. That goes without saying that he got the job only because the RN refused to vote against him. One may wonder why, but I think we know the answer.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I'm surprised it isn't a life time ban.