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…

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.

  • Venus_ZiegenfalleEnglish
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    1 month ago

    No because we’re way too lenient with those people. I’m hoping the AfD as a whole gets banned during the next administration but I kinda doubt they’ll go through with it.

    • bob_lemonEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Best we can do is allowing people to call Höcke a “right-wing extremist” without being sued for defamation.