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This week, a French court found far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling millions of euros of European Union funds and banned her from running for political office for five years – knocking the frontrunner out of the 2027 presidential race and enraging her supporters.
Coming so swiftly after Romania canceled the first-round election victory of a far-right candidate, Le Pen’s verdict has deepened a transatlantic debate about whether courts risk disenfranchising voters by removing a politician from electoral competition.
Le Pen’s case is becoming a political Rorschach test. Critics say the court’s decision is another instance of liberal…
