French courts ban presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen from elections

**-:Undertaker:-** · 31-03-2025, 08:35 PM

French courts ban presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen from elections

Result means the National Rally leader will be barred from 2027 Presidential Elections unless sentence is overturned

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In my view they have just handed the presidency to either her or her deputy, Jordan Bardella.

It's increasingly common now in the western world of liberal elites using the law and courts to pursue their populist political opponents, although as we saw with Donald Trump it eventually seems to completely backfire. Losing the arguments so resorting to dirty political tricks to get their own way - remember the legal challenges to our vote to leave the EU? Incredible.

US Vice President JD Vance was completely right a month or two ago when he questioned why America should have a close alliance with European countries when Europe seemingly doesn't share American values of freedom of speech etc anymore. Take Britain for example - more people have been prosecuted here for so-called hate speech laws than have been in Russia, including a woman who's been taken to court for standing silent praying outside an abortion centre - and I'm supposed to be scared of Putin not our own politicians and bent judges?

Anyway. She can still appeal this decision, but a ton of fuel has just been poured on French politics today.

felly78 · 05-04-2025, 07:11 PM

Moves like this, even if legally grounded, always end up looking politically motivated and that just hands more ammo to the people you’re trying to sideline. Same thing we saw in the US with Trump: court cases only seemed to strengthen his support