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Marine Le Pen attacked the court’s decision to ban her from standing in the elections after being convicted of embezzling money from the European Parliament.
The leader of the right -wing National Rally (RN) confirmed that she was innocent and pledged to appeal against the ruling in a television interview a few hours after she was convicted on Monday.
After the condemnation of Le Pen, the judges prevented her from his public position for five years in an exciting step, and this means that she will not be able to stand in the presidential elections of France in 2027.
Le Pen, who was among the candidates in the polls for the presidency, was also fined 100,000 dollars, and the prison sentence was awarded for a period of four years, and two years and two other servants will be suspended with an electronic mark.
“If this is not a political decision, I don’t know what it is,” Le Pen said in an interview TF1.
She described the court ruling as a “political decision”, which she said would appeal the ruling “as soon as possible” and insisted that she would not allow herself to “exit.”
She said: “There are millions of French who believe in me. I have been fighting for you for 30 years.
“I tell you tonight, I am not frustrated. Like you, I am a scandal, discontent, but this feeling, this feeling of injustice, is an additional boost to the battle I fight for them [the voters].
“Let’s be clear, I have been eliminated, but in fact millions of French whose voices have been eliminated.”
While the prohibition of the public office is effective immediately, it is understood that the prison sentence and the fine will not come into effect until Luban has exhausted its appeal against the judge’s ruling.
Jurman Barilla, who could replace Le Pen in the polling in 2027 if she could not run, said that X is that Le Pen “is unfairly convicted” and that French democracy “is executed.”
Earlier in the day, in a moment of high drama, Le Pen Pensib stood up and extracted from the court in the middle of the court in court before going to the headquarters of the Paris RN.
The ruling represents an extraordinary moment in French politics, with possible seismic effects.
While Loup’s allies between locals and internationals – including the likes of Matteo Salvini in Italy and Hungary Victor Urban – condemned the ruling, and some of its political opponents expressed their uncomfortable.
“A very heavy weight on our democracy,” said Laurent Wuxy.
The prosecution said that Le Pen was among a number of party officials accused of transferring nearly 3 million euros (2.5 million pounds) from The European Parliament is funded to pay employees in France. Between 2004 and 2016.
NR was said to have used Parliament as a “cash cow.”
But Le Pen and her accused said that the money was used legally. Everyone denied committing any violations.
In the Monday session, Judge Benedict de Barthoye said: “It has been proven that all of these people were already working in the party, and that they are [EU] The legislator did not give them any tasks.
“Investigations also showed that these were not administrative errors … but embezzlement in the framework of a system is placed in place to reduce the party costs.”
For more than a decade, Le Pen worked to make her party easier, in an attempt to devote her extremist edge to expand her attractiveness to voters.
She led the National Rally from 2011 to 2021. She changed its name from the National Front, as part of her efforts to remove her from the period when her father, Jean -Marie, was running and carried a heavy stigma of racism and anti -Semitism.
She had put herself as a candidate to succeed Mr. Macron, after she finished twice the runner -up to him.
In 2022, Mr. Macron won 58.5 percent of the votes to 41.5 percent – much closer to what it was in 2017 and the best degree of the far right of the French in a presidential attempt.
But the future of the party, and its chances in the elections in 2027, are now hanged in balance after the court’s ruling on Monday.