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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years

The Korea Times

The Korea Times

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The Paris court last week convicted Le Pen of embezzling public funds during her time as a member of the European Parliament, sentencing her to four years in prison—two with an electronic tag and two suspended—and fining her €100,000 ($108,200).
Saudi Gazette
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From 2004 to 2016, taxpayer money allocated to members of the European parliament to pay their assistants based in Strasbourg or Brussels was instead siphoned off by the far-right National Rally (RN) party, then called Front National, in order to pay its own party workers in France.
Guardian
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The dramatic intervention means the National Rally politician, front-runner to replace Emmanuel Macron in 2027, lives to fight another day after being banned on Monday from running for office.
Politico Europe
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Aftershocks are still being felt in France from what one political analyst told Fox News was a "political earthquake" there this week.
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