Banning Le Pen, playing with fire

Donald Trump (with the 34 charges) and Romania's Calin Georgescu (with his suspicious TikTok campaign last November) were joined on Monday by French nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen. Her party, the National Assembly, which has its roots in a more right-wing party founded by Le Pen's father 50 years ago, has moderated its message since she took over in 2011 and now gets more votes than any other party in France. Le Pen has steadily improved he…

Banning Le Pen, playing with fire

The French people must decide who leads them, not the courts.

Banning Le Pen Won’t Save Democracy—It’s Killing It - Labour Heartlands

France’s Establishment Just Declared War on Democracy—And Lost In the gilded halls of European power, a disturbing truth is emerging: when the elite cannot win at the ballot box, they will simply change the rules of the game.  The naked cynicism of this manoeuvre is breathtaking. Prosecutors took the extraordinary step of requesting Le Pen’s immediate ban from running for office rather than waiting until the appeals process concluded—a stunning …