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Le Pen Found Guilty of Misusing EU Funds and Barred from Public Office

Le Pen Found Guilty of Misusing EU Funds and Barred from Public Office

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Marine Le Pen has been convicted of embezzlement and banned from running for public office for five years by a French court. The conviction is related to the misuse of European Parliament funds, with the total amount embezzled differing slightly between articles, ranging from over €3 million to €4 million. Le Pen was also handed a four-year prison sentence with two years suspended, and a 100,000 euro fine.

Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. She was banned from running for five years and she was the leading candidate. That sounds like this country, that sounds very much like this country.
Giorgia Meloni
Brothers of Italy
1. But I think that no one who cares about democracy can rejoice at a sentence that targets the leader of a major party and deprives millions of citizens of representation.
Tammy Bruce
US State Department
1. We support the right of everyone to offer their views in the public square - agree or disagree.
Marine Le Pen
National Rally
1. I have absolutely no sense of having committed the slightest irregularity, or the slightest illegal act.
2. More and more European capitals are going down the path of trampling over democratic norms. Of course, we do not want to interfere in France's internal affairs, we have never done so ... But in general, our observations of European capitals show that they are not at all reluctant to go beyond democracy during the political process.
3. There are 11 million people who voted for the movement I represent. So tomorrow, potentially, millions and millions of French people would see themselves deprived of their candidate in the election.
4. Can you imagine what would happen if after the elections a judge rules that I am innocent? What legitimacy would the person elected to be president have?
5. Of course I would present myself being condemned and with an appeal underway, obviously. This is a process created by political adversaries.
6. With provisional execution, the judges have the power of life or death over our movement.
Jordan Bardella
National Rally
1. Today it is not only Marine Le Pen who was unjustly condemned: It was French democracy that was killed.
Bruno Gollnisch
National Rally
1. It [RN] will gain its strength within the people, the people will find this verdict very unfair, unjust.
2. Everybody understands that it's a political judgment [and that] this prosecution has been incredibly unfair.
National Rally
1. By banning Marine Le Pen from running in the 2027 presidential election, they are attempting to prevent her accession to the Élysée Palace by any means necessary.
2. You have always been able to count on Marine Le Pen, on her willingness to defend you, on her patriotism. Today, she is counting on you.
Remy Heitz
1. Justice is not political, this is not a political decision but a legal one, delivered by three independent, impartial judges.

Le Pen Found Guilty of Misusing EU Funds and Barred from Public Office

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