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If the candidates don’t meet the criteria of their laws or their campaigns are being Russian influenced or sympathetic to the Russian regime then I’m skeptical of their canadacy.

I'm assuming that by now you've become familiar with the news of the spreading banning of right-wing opposition candidates in 2025.

Do you have the same skepticism of the legal processes that are being used to ban these right-wing candidates from running?

I'm reviving this thread because three days after your post, Turkey banned its right-wing candidate from running on "corruption" charges. Now we have France banning its right-wing candidate from running on corruption charges, too. This bring the count of European countries banning right-wing candidates from running to three.

Furthermore, in the past few years the right-wing candidates were banned or jailed in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Guatemala.

In Israel, the left-wing Attorney General prosecuted Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery charges for accepting traditional diplomatic gifts such as champagne and cigars. Despite these charges, Netanyahu sought and won reelection and has grown in popularity.

Question: Since Trump's impeachments and personal trials, with all of these bans on right wing candidates from running, do you think:

That right-wing candidates are inherently corrupt and deserve to be ousted from elections?
The international left saw what happened to Trump and is ginning up charges against right-wing candidates who have gained in popularity in order to keep a hold on their power?
It's all a coincidence that right-wing candidates are "bad apples" being arrested acoss the globe at the same time in history?
Something else is going on?

-PJ