Marine Le Pen's moment of truth

BBC ^ | July 7 | BBC

[RandFan]

Marine Le Pen is about to find out whether or not she can run for the French presidency in next year's elections, when a Paris appeal court decides at 13:30 (12:30 BST) whether to uphold an embezzlement conviction against her.

She has already run for president three times and came second to Emmanuel Macron in 2022 and 2017, but this time she tops the polls with 10 months to go before the vote.

If she does not run, her young lieutenant Jordan Bardella will stand in her place, so the verdict could have far-reaching consequences for France.

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TOPICS: France; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2017; 2022; bardella; emmanuelmacron; france; jordanbardella; macron; marinelepen

[RandFan]

This is big. Ruling soon.

[Celtic Conservative]

The will let the conviction stand. They fear her and what she represents: rejection of the current program of incremental Islamicization. They fear it because it would mean massive internal fighting between the government and Islamists. But that’s coming anyways, and they’re too dumb to see it.

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[Wallace T.]

The Front National is a much longer standing right wing party than Reform in Britain or AFD in Germany. In all three countries, the existing parties in power will use all the tricks in the book to keep the right wing parties out of power. I don't know if Marine LePen is guilty or if there were drummed up charges as in the case of Donald Trump in the bank fraud charges in New York.

Whatever the case, look for dirty tricks to continue against patriotic parties, whether in Europe or the U.S.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. For better or for worse, something will change that civilization from its current state.

[Lowell1775]

The time is, if not past, then it is now for our proper conservative Christian leadership to cry havoc and start slitting throats of the Bolshevek and Islamic leadership and rank and file.

Helicopter rides and trains to the east for everybody.....use the Registered Democrat voter rolls.

The life and death of a nation , indeed , the life and death of Western Civilization and Christ’s mission on depend on it.

[RandFan]

Judge confirms Le Pen is guilty of charges

[boycott]

She has been cleared to run.

[RandFan]

Good spot. I stopped refreshing after the judges initial comment 😅

‘French court clears way for Marine Le Pen to run for president but orders her to wear electronic tag’

[packrat35]

Looks like they are taking out the top candidates in Brazil, France and Britain, just like they tried to do in the USA.

[MoraBlack]

Le Pen’s unsuspended prison sentence will be served under electronic monitoring. Prior to the ruling, she had made her candidacy contingent on not being required to wear an electronic monitoring device. She is scheduled to speak on TF1’s 8 p.m. news broadcast....