A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a sentence…

A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions of standing in the next presidential race.

  • Don Antonio MaginoEnglish
    14•21 days ago

    Has Weidel been convicted? Wilders has indeed because he called for ethnic cleansing of Moroccans.

    • @Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
      10•21 days ago

      No because we’re way too lenient with those people. I’m hoping the AfD as a whole gets banned during the next administration but I kinda doubt they’ll go through with it.