American vice president of JD Vance said on Thursday that French far right -wing politician Marine Le Pen was convicted of a very small crime and the decision to prohibit her to run for the presidential election according to Vance “not democracy”, It writes TASR, according to the AFP report.
“They try to put her in jail and exclude her from the elections,” announced the American Vice President in an interview with Newsmax. Vance claims that Le Pen has led in some surveys for presidential elections scheduled for 2027 And she was convicted of “an incredibly small act that, by the way, includes her staff, not Marine Le Pen himself,” he added.
Le Pen and other former and current members of the National Association (RN) leadership were on Monday in Paris recognition guilty of the embezzlement of the European Parliament’s finances. The politician was sentenced to four years of imprisonment – but it is not possible: In two years, her sentence will be conditional, the next two years should have an electronic bracelet. At the same time, the court ordered her to pay a fine of EUR 100,000 and gave her a five -year ban on the elected office.
French politician in an interview with Le Parisien’s daily promised that It will use all available legal means to stand in the upcoming presidential election, What is currently defending Monday’s judgment. She also announced that it intends to turn to French Constitutional Council and the European Court of Human Rights and to ask them to decide whether there is a mismatch between the court’s verdict about its irreplaceableness and freedom of voters that is enshrined in the Constitution.
US President Donald Trump described the judgment as a “very big thing” and compared it to his own lawsuit. “For five years, she has banned her to run for and was the main candidate. That sounds like this country, it sounds very much like this country,” the US President said.
Trump on his social platform Truth Social said that Le Pen does not know personally, but he appreciates how he said she worked hard for many years. “She suffered losses, but went on, and now just before the big victory, she was accused of a small offense that she probably didn’t know anything about. – This seems to me as an accounting error”Wrote the US President and called for the release of Le Pen.
