The French political establishment is following in the footsteps of other European parties by trying to ban their conservative opposition from office.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Rally and the current frontrunner to become the country’s next president, may be banned from holding public office for five years and even imprisoned if she is convicted in a politically-motivated embezzelement trial.
The 56-year-old has accused left-wing prosecutors of seeking her “political death” by requesting an instant five-year public office ban, a punishment that she says would be “completely disproportionate” for her alleged crimes.
According to prosecutors, Le Pen and several members of her National Rally party misused European Parliament funds between 2004 and 2016.
DEMOCRACY? The EU is desperate to keep conservatives out of power across Europe. Their latest effort is to ban the leading French presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, from office for five years and to jail her for a campaign finance violation. pic.twitter.com/uaTtsdI3jB
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They claim that Le Pen and others paid party staffers with around $600,000 in European Union money under the false pretense that they were working as parliamentary assistants.
She has denied any and all wrongdoing.
If convicted, she may also face a prison sentence of up to 10 years, although it would likely be substantially shorter than this.
Should she also be barred from office, Le Pen would be forced to pass the mantel to another, perhaps less experienced and recognized member of her National Rally party.
Le Pen would also not be the first European politician to be banned from office.
Earlier this month, courts in Romania shamelessly blocked the right-wing, anti-globalist candidate Calin Georgescu from running in May’s presidential election.
This move came months after Georgescu topped the poll in the first round of the country’s presidential election, a result that so shocked the establishment that they cancelled the election and rescheduled it for May.
Meanwhile, politicians in Germany have repeatedly considered banning the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on the false premise that they are far-right extremists.
Despite the attempts to smear their reputation, AfD won 20 percent of the vote in the country’s recent elections on their platform opposing mass immigration.
And as Americans will never forget, Democrats and the deep state desperately tried to get Donald Trump off the ballot through an aggressive lawfare campaign.
The rest, of course, is history.
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