France prevented Marine Le Pen from searching for a 5 -year -old general office

French court on Monday is prohibited Marine Le Pen From searching for a five-year public office, with the immediate impact, for embezzlement-a hammer of the presidential hopes of the far-right leader and an earthquake for French policy.

Although Le Pen can appeal the ruling, such a step will not suspend her innovation, which can be excluded from the 2027 presidential race.

The court ruling was political as well as judicial FranceOne of the prominent competitors at behind President Emmanuel Macron at the end of his second and last term, is scheduled to continue until 2027.

Le Pen herself was not present to hear the chief of judges, the ruling that threw her career in a tail. By that time, she had already left the courtroom, when the judge first indicated that Le Pen would prevent his position, without saying immediately to the time.

It can prevent her from ruling from running for the presidency in 2027, a scenario previously described as “political death.”

Only the appeal decision that turns the ban imposed on public positions can restore their hopes of standing. But with the elections only two years away, the time is running out and there is no guarantee that the Court of Appeal will rule more positively.

The referee was a loud defeat for the Le Pen. The judge also issued guilty rulings on charges of embezzlement of public funds to eight members or other former forms in her party, like her, previously held the position of European parliamentarians. 12 others were condemned as a parliamentarian in Le Pen and what is now the National Rally Party, which was previously the National Front.

The judge said that Le Pen was at the heart of a “regime” that her party used to a siphon of parliament’s money in the European Union. The judge said that Le Pen and other accused did not enrich themselves personally. But the ruling described embezzlement as the “democratic corridor” that deceived Parliament and voters.

From the front row of the court, Le Pen initially showed any immediate reaction when the judge announced for the first time her guilty. But it has grown more exciting because the ruling was then delivered in more detail. She nodded her head in a dispute, where the judge said that the Le Pen Parliament used European Parliament’s funds illegally for its own benefit.

“Incredible,” Pence whispered at one point. Then she suddenly left without warning, picking up her bag and graduated, and her heels click Clicking on the floor of solid wood, leaving the disbelief in its wake.

The court sentenced Le Pen to prison for two years under the arrest of the House of Representatives, but the political repercussions of the lack of importance were the most blow to its expected political future.

Le Pen and 24 other officials of the National Assembly were accused of using money allocated to parliamentary assistants in the European Union to pay employees who worked in the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27 countries ’bases. Le Pen and accused of the defendants denied any violations.

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Le Pen, 56, ranked second to President Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, and has supported her electoral party in recent years.

During the nine -week trial that occurred in late 2024, I argued that the insecurity “will have an impact on depriving me of being a candidate for the presidency” and depriving its supporters.

“There are 11 million people who voted in favor of the movement that it represented. So tomorrow, millions of millions of French themselves will see themselves deprived of their candidate in the elections,” said the committee of three judges and millions of French.

Behind Le Pen in 2027 will be Jordan Bartella, 29, who was succeeded by the party’s head in 2021.

Le Pen denied accusations that she was at the head of the regime aimed at traveling in Parliament in the European Union in favor of its party, which led it from 2011 to 2021. Instead, it was acceptable to adapt the work of the assistants who the European Parliament pushed to the needs of legislators, including some political actions related to the party.

Listening sessions showed that some European Union’s money was used to pay the price of Le Pen’s personal goalkeeper – who was once a personal guardian of her father – as well as her personal assistant.

Prosecutors have requested a two -year prison sentence of imprisonment for the lack of importance for Loop.

Le Pen said she felt “only interested” by preventing her from running for the presidency.

Leicester reports from PECQ, France

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