I don't know if any of you saw the French voting map, but 99% of France voted for Conservative Marie Le Pen over Macron. Le Pen is noted for her stance against migration, and also the EU. Now, like Trump, they're going to lawfare her into the ground.

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In an Honest World, Le Pen Wouldn’t Have Lost
First, the Breizh Info piece below breaks down the number of votes in the 2nd round of the legislative elections this past Sunday, showing that Le Pen’s party, the Rassemblement National (RN), got 8.7 million itself, and an additional 1.3 million given a newly organized alliance between elements of the centre-right party, Les Republicains. That’s around 10 million. By comparison, the left-far left Front Populaire got 7 million. And 6.3 million for Macron’s party. A reminder that the Left is composed of all sorts of bits and pieces (centre left, Green, communist, etc.) and that it normally wouldn’t have anything to do with Macron’s party in a million years.
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/in-an-honest-world-le-pen-wouldnt-have-lost/

Retribution -- Alvin Bragg Style -- comes to Paris for populist candidate Marine Le Pen, after she almost unseated globalist French President Emmanuelle Macron.

The Paris prosecutors’ office opened an investigation into the campaign financing of far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid in 2022, reports Politico. The inquiry focuses on suspicions of embezzlement, forgery, fraud and a candidate on an election campaign accepting a loan.

“I’m very surprised because our campaign expenses were approved in December 2022 and refunded in February 2023,” said an unnamed official from the National Rally, speaking to AFP.

“We don’t know what it’s about. We found out that an investigation had been opened, like everybody else, on [French television] BFMTV this morning,” he said.

The Western press picked up on the 'Le Pen' is a criminal narrative.

In September, Le Pen is also set to go on trial along with 24 other people over alleged misuse of EU funds, after a seven-year investigation into allegations that the National Rally used public funds, which were meant for EU parliamentary assistants, to pay party staff, wrote Politico.

According to Libération, Le Pen herself faces accusations of embezzlement of public funds and risks a fine and up to 10 years in jail. Significantly, Le Pen risks being disqualified from standing in elections for five years, which would affect her ability to run as a candidate in the next presidential election in 2027.

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Le Pen, Orban and the ‘Patriots for Europe’: Is the EU being undermined from within?

Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party this week joined forces with the camp of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to form a powerful new far-right bloc in the EU parliament. The group, Patriots for Europe, will be led by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s 28-year-old protégé. With 84 EU lawmakers it will be the parliament’s third-largest political group.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240709-le-pen-orban-and-the-patriots-for-europe-is-the-eu-being-undermined-from-within