BBetween 2004 and 2016, Marine Le Pen was at the heart of a program that diverted the European Union funds to pay for her party’s political staff, wrongly affirming that they worked as assistants to his deputies in the European Parliament. Thus ruled on a Paris court on March 31, condemning Ms. Le Pen and 23 other officials of her national right rally (Nurse) Part of a mixture of fines, prison terms and prohibitions to campaign. The decision landed in French politics as a bomb, due to an aspect of Ms. Le Pen’s sentence: it is prohibited for five years of the candidacy for its functions, with an immediate effect. This would include the presidential election in 2027, in which she is the head of the forehead.
Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to present herself to the presidency
