Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence

Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by bryanlarsen on Monday March 31, 2025 @10:59AM (#43535805)

That argument makes sense in most cases. If the candidate is a rapist, voters can and should be the ones to disqualify them.

But this is a case of cheating. If a candidate cheats in an election, that should disqualify them because otherwise the election is tainted.

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by inimino on Monday March 31, 2025 @03:39PM (#43538963)

This is an embezzlement case. No-one tampered with election results, so can you explain how there is any logic to your argument?

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by bryanlarsen on Monday March 31, 2025 @03:41PM (#43538982)

They used the money on the election campaign.

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by inimino on Monday March 31, 2025 @04:36PM (#43539656)

All I have seen is that four people worked for the party while being paid by the EU. Nothing like routing money to advertising campaigns or anything that would actually swing an election. And the headlines are all about embezzlement, not election fraud. So this seems like a stretch.

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by bisRepetita on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:56PM (#43540411)

I read that 9 European representatives, plus 12 assistants, plus 4 other members of the party were found guilty as part of a scheme to earn illegally EUR 2.9M for the party.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_des_assistants_parleme...

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by bryanlarsen on Monday March 31, 2025 @04:41PM (#43539715)

In my experience, boots on the ground are far more effective at affecting election outcomes than advertising campaigns are.

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by machomaster on Monday March 31, 2025 @06:33PM (#43540676)

Go and congratulate Kamala for her win against Trump.

This is just the latest example showing how wrong your take is.

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by lesuorac on Monday March 31, 2025 @07:09PM (#43540981)

So lets say you have a 6 sided die and you have two options.

1. You win when a 1 is rolled

2. You win when a 1 or a 2 is rolled

Despite both of the situations being less than 50% the 2nd one is still more effective.

(Also your comment implies Trump's campaign doesn't have boots on the ground which obviously isn't true ...)

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