Posted on 04/02/2025 7:28:07 PM PDT by george76
The controversial move to ban National Rally leader Marine Le Pen from standing in the French presidential election has been accused of demonstrating double standards, with reports claiming that over a hundred other European politicians violated the same rules without facing prosecution.
A Paris court enacted a five-year ban from running in any election against populist firebrand Marine Le Pen after finding her, and other members of her National Rally party
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one in five members at the time, had been found to have broken the same rules, the Times of London noted on Tuesday.
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BBC journalist Michael Crick said that the misuse of EU Parliament funds by political parties to fund operations in their home countries has been a longstanding open secret known to many journalists and the EU body itself, saying that hundreds of MEPs likely did exactly the same thing that Le Pen was accused of.
“Everybody in the European Parliament was at it, they all knew each other were at it, so they didn’t complain because they would be complained against themselves, so everybody turned a blind eye and the European Parliament as an institution was reluctant to do anything about it because it would go public and undermine the institution of Europe and
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What’s so great about this woman? Didn’t she win and lasted two months before falling on her face and resigned? Why are we supporting her?
Yeah, this is what ran through my mind when I first heard this story. All sorts of politicians are probably guilty of what they charged her with, but they are not immediate threats. This is the sort of thing they can be blackmailed/threatened with to keep them under the elites’ thumbs.
I think the complex French election system may have been confusing.
She had the most votes in the first count, but not a majority. In the runoff with Macron her opposition joined forces to elect Macron with a difference of more than 30%.
That's not the issue. The integrity of representative government without puppeteers is the issue.
They annulled the election in Romania because the ‘wrong’ candidate won.
Turkey - Erdogan put his main rival in prison.
Now, they have banned Marine Le Pen.
Ukraine suspended all elections.
Germany tries to ban the AFD.
The Europeans have raised hypocrisy to an art form.
I liken what’s being done to Le Pen to the Inquisition. And I have just as much contempt for those using their power against her as I do for those who ran the Inquisition.
That's not the point. This about the EU deciding who is worthy of running for office and who isn't. This only affects those who are considered "far right". If the EU doesn't like you they're putting a target on your back. This is no different than the persecution of Donald Trump, only the EU is more successful at it.
They were pretty successful over here on most of their targets!
I think you mean Liz Truss, British Prime Minister? This article is about Marine LaPenn.
That was Liz Truss.
I think of stuff like this every time someone tris to convince me of how great it would be to get rid of the 2 party system.
Thank you.
She's not great. She's simply the best of what's available.
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