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(Guardian UK) The European Unions anti-fraud body has accused Marine Le Pen and several of her party members including her father of embezzling about 620,000 while serving as members of the European parliament.
Frances investigative website Mediapart published a section of the new 116-report alleging that the MEPs misused EU funds for national party purposes.
The claims come a week before the second round of the presidential election, on 24 April, in which Le Pen will go head to head with Emmanuel Macron.
A spokesperson for Le Pens far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally) party questioned the timing of the accusations. Le Pens lawyer Rodolphe Bosselut told Agence France-Presse he was dismayed by the way that Olaf [the European anti-fraud office] is acting. He insisted some of the report related to old facts, more than 10 years old.
Marine Le Pen contests this. She contests it without having had access to the details of the accusation. Its a manipulation; unfortunately, Im not surprised, Bosselut told the French channel BFMTV. ...............(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/17/eu-anti-fraud-body-accuses-marine-le-pen-france-election
brush
(53,467 posts)the election. Somebody's doing some thinking to defeat that fascistic Putin lover.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)She's a pro-Putin fascist. How she garnered so much support is a mystery, but then again, the same can be said of Trumpy-Boy.
The coming political campaigns in the mid-term elections must be a referendum on Trump's Pro-Putin fascism. The Dems would be smart to spend millions on campaigning against ANY GOP candidate as a Pro-Trump, Pro-Putin fascist. Nail them every day (by altering the narrative), and let them defend their loyalty to a Pro-Putin fascist. It's a war for representative government. Perhaps few of us can recall the slogan repeated during the American Revolution's Boston "Tea Party": Taxation without Representation. Fascists don't want representative government. They will turn violent if they meet resistance to fascism. That's their M.O.
drray23
(7,587 posts)France does not hesitate to bring powerful politicians to justice, even former presidents. If there is any truth to these allegations, she is in trouble.
calguy
(5,222 posts)With Putin's barbaric behavior on full display, many voters in France are reluctant to support a strong supporter of Putin.
drray23
(7,587 posts)I just voted in the French elections last week. They have places you can vote in the US for french expats. All paper ballots of course.
dhol82
(9,351 posts)She is of the opinion that the Right will just say that its the Deep State throwing shade on LePen.
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)DFW
(54,050 posts)Le Pen surely recognizes it as such, since its exactly the sort of thing she would do to Macronif only she could.