DISINFO: Le Pen’s sentence shows that the EU has become a dictatorship
SUMMARY
Justice is instrumentalised, it has been seen with Fillon, with Strauss Kahn, today with Marine Le Pen. From a purely legal point of view, these three people were guilty. The only problem is that they were convicted when it was judged politically necessary, rather than based on law and justice.
There is an attempt to create a climate of terror that would allow the term of Emmanuel Macron to be extended. A President can extend his term in case of war. Emmanuel Macron controls people with fear, fear of COVID, fear of a Russian invasion, with his speech on the war economy. The European Union has become a dictatorship controlled by unelected people, which Macron relays in France.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory intending to discredit the French justice system, Emmanuel Macron and the EU.
This case follows the verdict in a court case in France involving Marine Le Pen. On the 31 March 2025 she was banned from running for political office in France for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds.
The expert does not contest that Marine Le Pen is guilty and would deserve the sentence if she was a normal person. He argues that because she is a potential candidate for the 2027 presidential election, she benefits from unwritten political immunity. Therefore, the sentence is politically motivated since the justice is not independent, i.e., that French judges do not apply the law but the will of the president, who himself obeys an unelected EU power.
There is no political immunity for people wishing to compete in presidential elections in France. The justice system is independent and applies the law equally to everyone, regardless of their plans to compete in presidential elections. Marine Le Pen will be judged by a different court on appeal.
This statement means that the provisional enforcement of the ineligibility sentence (which temporarily prevents someone from running for office) is a contentious issue. The controversy arises because the RN party (Rassemblement National) believes that the actions for which they are being prosecuted are entirely legal and should not be subject to any penalties. They argue that these actions can be carried out without any legal consequences, implying that the prosecution is unjustified.
The Anticor non-governmental association against corruption comments as follows:
The application of provisional execution to some of the defendants was also fully justified by the court, which considered that the "risk of reoffending was objectively established," since ten years after the events, the defendants continue to contest them. Finally, the court emphasized that "the defense's proposal to let the voters decide amounts to claiming a privilege, an immunity, in violation of the rules of the law," which Anticor welcomes, believing that the sentences handed down are consistent with the principle of equality before the law.
The Argument that the EU is a non-elected dictatorship is a recurring disinformation narrative from pro-Kremlin outlets and has been debunked many times.
The European Union is a democratic organisation, which is based on the rule of law and the respect for fundamental rights. Other European values include contested elections, free media, human dignity, equality, a functioning market economy and other fundamental democratic requirements.
The EU is governed by the principle of representative democracy, with citizens directly represented at Union level in the European Parliament and Member States represented in the European Council and the Council of the EU. A European citizen automatically enjoys political rights. Every adult EU citizen has the right to stand as a candidate and to vote in elections to the European Parliament. EU citizens have the right to stand as candidates and to vote in their countries of residence, or in their countries of origin.
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