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Marine Le Pen before the interview on the television channel TF1, the day she was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
Political family was all on the French side, sentenced to 4 years in prison and prevented from running for presidential elections of 2027, but André Ventura fled to the rule.
-Two of them to be fulfilled with an electronic bracelet-the leader of the French far right Marine Le Pen The same day was a victim of a “political” sentence that aims to prevent “the favorite for the presidential elections to apply” in 2027.
Prevented from running for public positions with immediate effect, for 5 years, Le Pen assured that will “present an appeal allow you to present yourself as a candidate. ”
“I am innocent (…), I consider that this process moved against us by political opponents is based on arguments that are not valid. This is an administrative disagreement with the European Parliament. There is no personal enrichment, no corruption, there is none of this, ”Le Pen said to the TF1 channel last night:“ I won’t let myself easily eliminate, ”he said, and will not“ at all ”abandon politics.
“There are millions of French who believe in me, millions of French who trust me (…), for 30 years that I fight against injustice and I will continue to do so and I will do so to the end,” he said.
“All” with Le Pen… Less Ventura
This Monday, very quickly the nationalist, far-right leaders began to revolve with the conclusions of the Paris Criminal Court and to “scare” the French Judiciary Superior Council (CSM), which was “concerned about virulent reactions” to the conviction.
Between Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jair Bolsonaro or Viktor Orbán, who stood out was the leader of the Portuguese far right, André Venturastrangely escaping the rule of his united political family e.
“If we have a leader, or a leader, or a politician, or a policy, or a former prime minister, or a prime minister suspected of enriching in the performance of his duties, suspected of deflecting money, then You cannot re -apply, Whether in Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, ”he said, comparing former National Union leader Luís Montenegro:“ It’s no worse ”Le Pen’s case than the Portuguese Prime Minister’s case (…) French justice would have already handled him and taken to a prison in Paris,” he said.
Already the rest of the right leaders (and former leaders, special government officials and Kremlin) strongly supported Marine Le Pen.
The US President, Donald Trumphe compared his legal proceedings-was considered guilty for illegal payments to a former pornographic actress, and investigated in several cases-to the conviction of Marine Le Pen.
“It looks like our country, it looks a lot like our country,” Donald Trump told the white press on Monday.
Prior to Trump’s statements, the State Department considered “particularly worrying” the “exclusion of candidates from the political process,” reacting to Le Pen’s sentence.
Your right and multimillionaire arm Elon Musk This Monday was responsible for the “radical left” for the “abuse of the judicial system”.
“When the radical left cannot win through democratic vote, abuse the judicial system to arrest their opponents. This is his modus operandi around the world,” Elon Musk wrote on his social network. In another message, he said, “This will make a ricochet, as with Judicial attacks on President Trump.”
Em FranceRN leader Jordan Bardella, seen as “Plan B” if Le Pen’s candidacy is not realized, considered the verdict “a democratic scandal”, while the French far-right politician Eric Zemour, wrote on social network X that “it is not up to the judges to decide whom the people should vote for”.
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbanhe was the first to write “Je Suis Marine” (“I’m Marine”) in X as a way of supporting the convict.
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The leader of the Italian league, Matteo Salviniand the Spanish party leader Vox, Santiago Abascalthey also positioned themselves in supporting Le Pen. In the Netherlands, the leader of the far right party, Geert Wildersconsidered the decision “incredibly hard.”
O Kremlin It also criticized the decision. Russian regime spokesman Dimitri Peskov said this outcome in court is a clear “violation of democratic norms.”
The former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro He condemned what he called persecution of the historical leader of the far right.
“I hope and hope that Mrs. Le Pen wins this persecution and can dispute the next presidential elections” in 2027, Bolsonaro wrote, on Monday, on social network X. “The people should decide who will be the next president of France in 2027,” added the far-right politician, also sentenced to political ineligibility in Brazil.
