Le Pen handed immediate five-year ban from political office, excluding her from running in the French presidential elections in 2027
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This is the context that’s missing from the headlines of the other thread of this event. She’s not being banned for being far right, but being banned for embezzlement.
I would imagine the correlation is pretty high tho
Well, that’s a given, but leading with why is more genuine than making what appears to be a propaganda piece by only mentioning the political part (far-right leader), which makes it appear that she was banned for being far-right.