Observers of globalist antics would likely have not been caught off guard by the Paris court decision on March 31 that sought to ensure French politician Marine Le Pen’s “political death” by banning her from running in France’s 2027 presidential elections and ruling that she was “guilty” of alleged misappropriation of public funds.
Globalist news mouthpiece CNN stated:
“A Paris court also handed Le Pen, who was the frontrunner for the next election, a four-year prison sentence with two years suspended, to be served under house arrest, and a €100,000 ($108,000) fine.”
Le Pen was previously accused of supposedly misappropriating European public funds (€6.8 million) and getting European parliamentary assistants to work for her party, the Rassemblement National (RN).
Prosecutors have alleged that these parliamentary assistants worked only for the RN without working on European issues, urging the court to eradicate Le Pen’s ability to run for French president in 2027. For one, the judge slammed RN staff for allegedly signing “fictional contracts”, indicating that “all these people were in reality working for the party and not for the MEP to which they were theoretically attached”.
For all their militant rhetoric on supposedly strengthening Europe’s defenses against a “hostile” Russia, European elites, including Napoleon-wannabe (but effectively lame-duck French leader Emmanuel Macron), are already waging war on their own citizens by relying on unelected judges to remove political dissenters.
In response to this politically-charged judicial challenge, Le Pen’s defense highlighted how since EU parliamentary rules do not specifically stipulate the scope of tasks permitted for assistants, her assistants should be permitted to help out in tasks in their home country (i.e. France) too.
As it turned out, the court did not agree with Le Pen’s defense and sentenced her to four years in prison, €100,000 in fines, and barred her from political office.
Although Le Pen pledged that she would immediately appeal her sentence, this appeal could be a long-drawn one. Yet the court’s five-year ban on Le Pen running for president, or any other kind of elected office, materialized immediately, rendering her attempt to run for the Élysée in two years’ time extremely unlikely, if not impossible.
Following the verdict on Le Pen, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the League party Matteo Salvini was spot-on when he declared that the “people who are afraid of the judgment of the voters are often reassured by the judgment of the courts.”
Similarly, RN President Jordan Bardella wrote on X:
“Today, it is not only Marine Le Pen who is being unjustly condemned: it is French democracy that is being executed.”
Sure enough, earlier events, such as how Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) annulled the validity of Călin Georgescu’s candidacy for alleged (and dubious) reasons linked to the origin of his campaign finances on March 9, prove Bardella’s and Salvini’s points.
Likewise, the European Commission hitherto sought to freeze EU funds owed to the conservative Hungarian government after globalist Brussels accused Budapest of violating the EU’s “democratic values” owing to Hungary’s Sovereignty Protection Act.
Echoing their left-liberal counterparts throughout Europe, German mainstream politicians have been wracking their brains in order to eventually prohibit the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from participating in politics altogether. During the constitutive session of the 21st Bundestag on March 25, AfD was prevented from occupying any positions of power despite having parliamentary mandates. Moreover, the left-wing Greens are hoping to steamroll a motion through the Bundestag to ban the AfD “as soon as possible”.
It is no longer common sense that prevails in Brussels-backed courtrooms and in the public arena, but political ideologies in favor of the powers that be.
Having penned a recent piece for The Remnant about the various underhand tactics European Union (EU) elites have been taking to ward off their populist rivals (the latter whom more and more European voters favor), I largely expected such an outcome for Le Pen.
After all, as I posited, the EU’s version of “democracy” is its only permitted “orthodox” version, while dissenters are not to be tolerated. Perhaps, for the sake of appearances, local and national elections where ordinary Europeans can cast their votes are still permitted.
Yet, as more and more voters shift their political preferences towards right-wing, anti-immigration, and nationalist politicians, it is no wonder why the Brussels elites have been increasingly apprehensive that they would be ousted from power. The very fact that these elites are relying on lawfare and politically slanted courts to eliminate political competition (instead of contesting in honest elections) shows that they are trying to remain unaccountable for their ill-conceived policies, despite citizen backlash.
For all their militant rhetoric on supposedly strengthening Europe’s defenses against a “hostile” Russia, European elites, including Napoleon-wannabe (but effectively lame-duck French leader Emmanuel Macron), are already waging war on their own citizens by relying on unelected judges to remove political dissenters. It is no longer common sense that prevails in Brussels-backed courtrooms and in the public arena, but political ideologies in favor of the powers that be.
As for Le Pen’s eventual fate, we’d only have to grab some popcorn and watch the drama that would unfold.
