Summary
A French court found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling over €3 million in EU funds, potentially ending her 2027 presidential bid.
The judge ruled Le Pen and 24 others misused European Parliament funds between 2004 and 2016 to pay National Rally party staff, calling it a deliberate scheme, not an error.
Prosecutors had sought five years’ prison and a public office ban. Even with an appeal, a provisional execution could bar her candidacy.
Wait, y’all can just convict a right-wing political figure and like, get rid of them? Forever?
We gotta check our math, I think we did something wrong over here.
Yeah. It was reconstruction where we never held the south to account for their treasonous actions.
Lol of course not. She’ll be right back in five years. And people will vote for her again.
I heard that Trump jumped up and down and threw his juice box when JD explained he couldn’t pardon her.
Maybe. We’ll see if this is a real prosecution or just French Mueller Time.
The French know what’s up. As per usual.
I… I didn’t know you could do that.