President Donald Trump calls for “Liberation” from Marine Le Pen. According to him, his condemnation to an ineligibility sentence is a “Witch hunt” To prevent him from winning the French presidential election of 2027. “It’s so bad for France and for the great people of France (…) Free Marine Le Pen! »»he urged this Thursday, April 3 in capital letters on its Truth Social Network Thursday.
“She suffered failures but she continued and now, just before what would be a big victory, they attack her on a minor accusation of which she probably knew nothing,” The tenant of the White House was outraged for whom “It looks like (…) to an accounting error ». Without ever appointing justice or the French executive, Donald Trump said that the head of the RN deputies was the victim of an operation orchestrated by “European leftists who use the legal weapon to silence freedom of expression”.
“It’s not democracy”
His vice-president is on the same line. Earlier this Thursday, JD Vance castigated the condemnation by the courts of the triple presidential candidate, believing that “It’s not democracy”. Asked about the Newsmax conservative channel, he insisted: “She is in the lead in certain polls. And for a particularly minor accusation (…)they try to put it in prison and dismiss it from the ballot. »» Since the verdict, many nationalist leaders have mounted in the niche to defend Marine Le Pen, from Elon Musk to Viktor Orban via Geert Wilders and Matteo Salvini.
Declared guilty of “Dispute of public funds” In the case of European parliamentary assistants of the FN, Marine Le Pen was inflicted a sentence of five years of ineligibility with provisional execution, as well as four years in prison, including two farm developed under electronic bracelet. The head of the RN deputies, who hidden at the top of the last surveys for the presidential election, called on this conviction.
The Paris Court of Appeal said that it was considering a lawsuit with “A decision in the summer of 2026”. This rapid period could potentially change the fate of the triple presidential candidate and allow her, if the immediate execution of his ineligibility sentence was reviewed during the hearing on appeal, to present himself in 2027.
