French populist Marine Le Pen has “nothing” to prevent her from running for president as a court case over alleged misuse of EU funds threatens to prevent the National Rally leader from taking part in the next election. I declared that there was no.
Ms Le Pen on Monday joined 26 current and former members of the National Rally (RN), including her father and party co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, in a lawsuit over allegations of embezzlement of European Union funds.
The charges date back to 2018 and allege that the younger Le Pen and other members of her party fabricated European Parliament staff and diverted their salaries to France to fund domestic political campaigns.
If convicted, the National Assembly leader could face up to 10 years in prison. Le Pen would also be stripped of her civil rights for up to five years, potentially disqualifying her from running for president in 2027 and ending her long-held quest for the top job in Paris. It is likely to end.
The three-time former presidential candidate is widely expected to be the front-runner to replace Macron at the Elysée Palace in 2027, when the globalist mogul is term-limited.
The three-time former presidential candidate is putting up a valiant fight ahead of the trial. quotation by le figaro “There's nothing stopping me from running for president.”
Le Pen entered a Paris courtroom on Monday. said Reporter: “We haven't broken any rules… To me, there are a lot of arguments to be made to protect what I think are parliamentary freedoms at issue in this matter.”
The trial took place amid deepening political divisions in France. Le Pen's party won the most votes of all political parties in July's parliamentary elections, called by President Macron after the National Rally's embarrassing defeat in the EU parliamentary elections.
However, before the second round, a strategic voting alliance was formed between President Macron and the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP), with candidates selectively supporting those with the best chance of defeating the RN challenger. However, as a result of the withdrawal, the National Assembly was prevented from gaining a majority in the Diet.
Macron had allied himself with the left-wing bloc during the election, but the wily political operator quickly abandoned the New Popular Front, refusing to join the coalition or appoint their preferred prime ministerial candidate.
Instead, the French president sacked 73-year-old former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and installed him at the Hôtel Matignon as the country's new prime minister.
Barnier, a member of the centrist Republican party, quickly assembled a new government made up mostly of Macron supporters. This means that Mr Macron maintained his grip on power, even though the president's faction came in third place in the parliamentary elections.
But with the National Assembly effectively divided into three parties, it is unclear whether Barnier's government will be able to govern effectively or whether it will collapse again like the previous government, which lasted only a few months.
Amid a looming battle over the country's fiscal crisis, pensions and mass immigration, Le Pen said this week that she was “confident” that another parliamentary election would be forced next year, when the constitutional deadline to dissolve parliament expires. Ta.
Le Pen: “I can't support that” quotation As you say. “The great country of France cannot function like this.”
