"The agony of liberal democracy" — Zakharova on the verdict of Le Pen: EADaily

EDITO. Between partisan justice that takes advantage of the weakness of the state and a Sapin law with perverse effects, our country is dangerously alienated from its democratic ideals.

"The agony of liberal democracy" — Zakharova on the verdict of Le Pen: EADaily

EADaily, March 31st, 2025. The verdict of the head of the parliamentary faction of the French party "National Association" Marine Le Pen demonstrates the agony of liberal democracy, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

In the context of the ban on running in elections, Morawiecki stressed that the verdict is "an attempt to take away people's right to choose."

The State Department recalled JD Vence's speech at the Munich conference in February, during which he blamed Europe for the decline of democracy and the lack of freedom of speech.

The French Constitutional Court has decided today to take control of French democracy in a way that, in scale and method, is an imitation of the actions of the Romanian Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court, let us recall, first annulled the first-round election results favorable to Cǎlin Georgescu, and then rejected his appeal against the decision of the Central Electoral Commission when it did not allow him to run in the rerun electio…

Marine Le Pen was sentenced to two years in prison and five years of ineligibility, a decision that caused a wave of shock throughout the political class.