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Marine Le Pen banned from running for French presidency in 2027 and given four-year sentence in embezzlement trial – live (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Go on France, fight the fascists. 😀

[–] HobbitFoot 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

She isn't banned from running because she is fascist, but because she is corrupt.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That standard should still deal with plenty of the fascists, if consistently applied. Only the decent, honest, law-abiding fascists will slip through.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

woohoo no fascists then

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Be careful, you wrote the same word twice there.

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