French prosecutors have asked for prison time and a five-year ban from politics for far-right leader Marine Le Pen, potentially derailing her bid to become president in 2027.
Le Pen, her National Rally party and more than 20 of its members are accused of using European Parliament money to pay staff who were in fact working for RN in France, allegations they deny. After almost six weeks of hearings at the Paris criminal court, French prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they were requesting a sentence for Le Pen of five years of imprisonment and the imposition of five years of ineligibility from politics.
Meanwhile, the severity of the proposed sentence prompted RN to launch the hashtag #jesoutiensmarine on X that party officials have used with a photo of themselves with Le Pen. The far-right leader also received support from her political allies and elsewhere. Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who wrote on X that the prosecutors’ move was an attempt to “stop the popular will and the democratic wind of change.
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