The leader of the Union of the Right for the Republic party, Éric Ciotti, has criticized the court ruling that banned Marine Le Pen from running for public office.
According to him, this is not just a judicial proceeding but a mechanism to eliminate undesirable candidates.
The frontrunner in the presidential election was not allowed to run. This is not a malfunction but a system of power grab that excludes any right-wing politician capable of winning – from François Fillon to Marine Le Pen, Ciotti stated on social media platform X. He also expressed his support for Le Pen, calling her his ally, and questioned: “Is France a democratic state?”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also voiced support for the leader of the French National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, after a Paris court found her guilty.
“Je suis Marine (I am Marine),” Orbán wrote on X, referencing the well-known slogan “Je suis Charlie”, which emerged after the 2015 attack on the Charlie Hebdo editorial office.
The Paris court found Le Pen and 24 members of her party guilty of embezzling European Parliament funds through fraudulent hiring of assistants. Among the penalties is a ban on running for elections. The French presidential election is set to take place in April 2027.
