Marine Le Pen, leader of the Ultra right meeting Party (RN), received a five-year ban on public positions after being sentenced on Monday (31) by embezzlement, almost certainly preventing her planned presidential candidacy in 2027.
After the repercussion of the news, several political figures from Europe and other parts of the world reacted to the sentence. Look:
Jair Bolsonaro
“This decision is clearly a left -wing judicial activism. Wherever the right is present, the left and the system will work to take their opponents out of the game.”
Donald Trump Jr., son of the US President
“France is sending Le Pen to jail and preventing her from competing?! Are they just trying to prove that Jd Vance was right about everything?”
ELON MUSK
“When the radical left cannot win by democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to arrest their opponents. This is their standard manual around the world.”
François Hollande, former president of France
“The only reaction I can have as former French president is to respect the independence of the judicial system. Mrs. Le Pen, like all other convicted people, can go to the court of appeals even to the decision of ineligibility.”
Jordan Bardella, president of the National Meeting
“Today it was not just Marine Le Pen who was unfairly condemned: it was the French democracy that was killed.”
Matteo Salvini, vice-prime minister of Italy
“People who are afraid of voter judgment are often reassured by the trial of the courts. In Paris, they condemned Marine Le Pen and would like to exclude her from political life-an ugly movie we are also watching in other countries, such as Romania.
Dmitry Peskov, Russian Kremlin spokesman
“Well, in fact, more and more European capitals are walking the way to run over democratic norms. Of course, we don’t want to interfere with France’s internal affairs, we have never done it … But in general, our observations from the European capitals show that they are not at all reluctant to go beyond democracy during the political process.”
Geert Wilders, leader of Ultracerea in the Netherlands
“I’m shocked by the incredibly hard verdict against [Marine Le Pen]. Support and believe in it 100% and I trust that she will win the appeal and become president of France. ”
George Simion, presidential candidate for Ultra right in Romania
“Attacking or annihilating your political opponent by any means is something directly out of the totalitarian regime instruction manual. This happened today in [França]. ”
This content was originally published in Bolsonaro, Elon Musk, Trump’s son: see reactions to Le Pen’s conviction on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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