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French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office

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    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.

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      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.

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      Man, wouldn't it be nice if our courts would do the same for our far-right leaders?

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        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.

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        Only for five years, and only if it will not see an appeal. Still, it's a good start.

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          Only for five years, and only if it will not see an appeal. Still, it's a good start.

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          The verdict will stay in place even if she goes for an appeal. It can only be lifted if she actually wins the appeal but the chances of that are practically zero given the evidence.

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            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.

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            Now it's time to clean up the other thousands of elected officials corrupting the French political sphere...

            Source: I'm a local

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              Now it's time to clean up the other thousands of elected officials corrupting the French political sphere...

              Source: I'm a local

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              Exactly, but the current government tried several times to block Anticor, which is a protection for us against corruption.

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                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.

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                "banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds...

                a four-year prison sentence with two years suspended, to be served under house arrest, and a €100,000 ($108,000) fine.

                Her party, National Rally (RN), was ordered to pay €2 million in fines for the €4.1 million that it was accused of embezzling."

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                  Man, wouldn't it be nice if our courts would do the same for our far-right leaders?

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                  Man what country are you even taking about, what a sad world to live in.

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                    Exactly, but the current government tried several times to block Anticor, which is a protection for us against corruption.

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                    They're gonna have a difficult upcoming few weeks, I wish them strength...

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                      Man what country are you even taking about, what a sad world to live in.

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                      Heh, I'm noticing that. For clarification, I'm in the USA.

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                        Man, wouldn't it be nice if our courts would do the same for our far-right leaders?

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                        France burns their constitution and starts over every 15 years it seems. No way we could do that without Billionaires buying influence and removing more of our rights.

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