Comments on: Lawfare, French style: Marine Le Pen sentenced and banned from running for five years https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Cappy https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/#comment-2795592 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:08:36 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140921#comment-2795592 Defend the Our Democracy (TM)

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/#comment-2795413 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:49:51 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140921#comment-2795413 There’s already an effort underway to ban AfD.

]]> By: Chad King https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/#comment-2795411 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:15:10 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140921#comment-2795411 Can Germany be far behind in outlawing AfD? If you can’t win at the ballot box, just outlaw the candidates preferred by a plurality.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/#comment-2795381 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:24:01 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140921#comment-2795381 for a time and founded her own party
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Marion is a member of Reconquete, Eric Zemmour’s outfit. Marine’s deputy is Jordan Bardella.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/#comment-2795379 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:13:48 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140921#comment-2795379 It would be ironic if Le Pen’s successor wins the general election. She and her father have tried multiple times and lost every time. It seems they just can’t win a general election for reasons that are beyond me so maybe it’s time to try someone else from the right.
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NR has been improving its position in increments for 50 years. They’ve reached the point where they have a plurality in national parliamentary elections. There have been 17 parliamentary elections under the current constitution. Their performance in popular ballots in 2024 has been exceeded by the Gaullists on four occasions, by the Socialist Party on two occasions, and by UPM / LR on two occasions. No party has ever done as well as they did in 2024 without being the leading performer. Marine has per recent surveys a better-than-even chance of taking the presidency in 2027. There have been eleven popular presidential elections under the current constitution. The office went to the Gaullist candidate five times, the Socialist candidate three times, and the technocratic element three times. She’s been on the verge of accomplishing something that had not been done before. Do try to pay attention.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/#comment-2795372 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:39:15 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140921#comment-2795372 A sad day for France,
a sad day for Europe,
a sad day for Western Civilization.

At least we are getting a better look at the current war:

Global elites + the left + special minorities vs. the middle-class + working-class

]]> By: chazzand https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/#comment-2795368 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:28:40 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140921#comment-2795368 It would be ironic if Le Pen’s successor wins the general election. She and her father have tried multiple times and lost every time. It seems they just can’t win a general election for reasons that are beyond me so maybe it’s time to try someone else from the right. I’ve seen candidates nominated in this country who were close losers previously and the powers-that-be decided that THIS time it will be different. It wasn’t. Some people just have the air of “loser” about them even if they really aren’t that bad. It’s a brand that sticks.

]]> By: Jimmy https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/#comment-2795367 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:23:02 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140921#comment-2795367 I suspect they’re figuring that substituting another NR politician for Marine will cost the NR just enough votes

Marine has a niece, Marion, who is politically active and very conservative, though I think she split off from the Le Pen family for a time and founded her own party, so I don’t know if she’s a viable replacement. She happens to be quite attractive.

]]> By: Hubert https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/#comment-2795363 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:35:07 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140921#comment-2795363 IrishOtter49: “The lamps are going out all over Europe.”

That’s my gut feeling too. Certainly in western Europe. Maybe not 1914, but 1936-1939. Stupidity married to fecklessness, weakness, and mutual distrust. All papered over with empty rhetoric and League of Nations-grade delusions.

Glad my grandparents left and came here. We’ll feel it (as Zelensky put it), but at least we’re on a course correction in this country. The last best hope–if we don’t blow it.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/31/lawfare-french-style-marine-le-pen-sentenced-and-banned-from-running-for-five-years/#comment-2795351 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:24:06 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140921#comment-2795351 That’s the trouble with predicting the future …..

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