The Court ends French democracy apparently more than € 4.1 million in money from the EU Parliament

The «MEP assistants» financed by the EU were actually doing political work, Oh, the horror, a ‘gigantic € 4.1 million was embezzled [Why wasting €4.1 million of taxpayers’ money on unnecessary MEP aides would have been any better is a mystery.]An insurgent politician, spoiling to cause discomfort and overthrow the establishment, removed from the ballot after corruption charges. No, I’m not talking about Türkiye of Erdoganor some other distant autocracy, but nominally democratic France, where a court has just dump the next presidential elections.

Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Right Rally (RN), who prepares for a fourth inclination in the French presidency in 2027, has been prohibited standing for elections For five years. It has been convicted for its role in the diversion of millions of euros in funds from the European Parliament and use it to finance the national political activities of RN. It has also been fined with € 100,000 and sentenced to four years in prison, although it would only serve half of that, under house arrest.It is possible that it does not reach that: Le Pen will immediately appeal his sentence, a process that I could take years. But the five -year prohibition of running for president, or any other form of elected position, will immediately enter into forcemaking another offer for the Elysée in two incredibly unlikely years, if it is not totally impossible. For charges of embezzlement, le pen can be for rights, even if A little creative accounting has been for a long time for the course between the Set of Brussels. The judge saying Rally National Personnel had signed «fictitious contracts», establishing that «all these people were actually working for the party and not for the Eurodiputa to which they were theoretically attached.» Le Pen refused to recognize any irregularity at all times, which led to a tougher prayer. Still, that The judge granted the request of the prosecutors of a entitled ‘Provisional Execution Prohibition‘, beheading his presidential campaign before he beganrightly, he has shocked the followers of Le Pen and even some of his opponents. She splashed Before you could read your complete prayer. After his trial in November, Gérald DarmaninThe Minister of Justice in the Government of Emmanuel Macron and the candidate for presidential candidate, insisted that «Madame Le Pen should fight at the polls, not elsewhere.» He vertiginous reception The ruling has received from the sections of the French left, meanwhile, has been depressing, although depressingly predictable.For the true Democrats, Le Pen’s policy is irrelevant. If she, or any politician, must be able to lead France, must be decided in the elections, not in court. Voters are more than capable of casting their verdict about it, its policies and its crimes, to judge whether the ‘moderate’ image change of its hard party is legitimate and if your conviction should rule out it outside the position. Than her compatible The 2016 law that has now demolished its candidacy is also irrelevant. Democratic bets are too high to be exhausted by Schadenfreude and howls of ‘hypocrisy’.French voters are furious with elites, as embodied by Emmanuel MacronSeeing his second and final term as president, a man whose elitism would make the old French kings stamped. His choice in 2017 was supposed to be a victory for technocratic competition and an overwhelming defeat for populism. Today, he is a lame president and someone with the last name Le pen has 10 points ahead Some surveys. This was simply unthinkable when Marine Le Pen took over the then National Front of his father Anti-Semitic, Jean-Marie, before expelling him as part of his ‘detoxification’ efforts. The RN, despite its despicable past and its present questionable, It has become the weapon that abandoned French workers are reaching to return the blow to a distant Paris. And not because suddenly they have become racists and fascists, as the media would make you believe. Since the left has disappeared the foundation of environmentalism and identity policy, the law is where forgotten voters, who seek to fly a failed global consensus, are going mass. Remove the RN leader from the voting will feel among these people as an affront to democracy. Because it is, whatever legal subtleties.This is a story that continues to be repeated. The more voters rebel against the European establishment, the more candidates against the establishment are taken out of the field. In RomaniaThe spectrum of the Russian interference was used to justify the dump of its presidential election last year and the eventual prohibition of its winner, ultra-nationalist Rancho Calin Georgescu. In Germany, the ‘centrists’ have coqueted for a long time with Prohibit the unpleasant AFDwith the argument, it is a threat to democracy, irony apparently lost in them. We all know where the clearest and pressing threats come from to European democracy at this time, of the elites in conflict that they wish to crush populist challengers, laws that keep the contempt and the useful idiots that prefer ridiculous to the fall of their opponents than in a point of democratic principles. Call me outdated, but I think voters should choose, and twist their rulers. Apparently, that is a fight that Europeans need to have again. Fountain: Spiked