Of Athena Papakosta

With her television interview on TF1 Network, Monday night, Marin Lepen ruled out any possibility of depositing weapons And withdraw from the political spotlight, while clearly making it angry that she will fight for her right to run for the 2027 presidential election in France.

They had been completed only a few hours after a French court found her guilty of embezzlement of European funds for the payment of her partners who, although they should have been working for the European Parliament, never saw it as they provided their… services for her party to the party. France.

Her sentence: four years in prison – two with suspension and the remaining two to a “bracelet” restriction, imposing a fine of 100,000 euros and deprivation of the right to be elected for five years, which has been implemented immediately. On her side the Lepen It will appeal, pressing to accelerate the process, but the chances of it being rid of and ultimately being a candidate in 2027 – though they exist – are considered limited.

“Tonight, millions of French are indignant. Angry to an incredible degree, seeing that in France, in the country of human rights, judges applied practices that one encounters in authoritarian regimes, “Lepen told TF1, describing the” scandal “verdict, Musk, consultant of the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

At the same time his concern was also expressed by the State Department with his spokesman linking developments in France with the conviction of the US president for a criminal offense when he was still a Republican candidate for the anointing, stressing that “the exclusionary In the United States. “

Already, on the road opened by the Staff of the Trump election campaign, Lepen’s far -right party, a National Coalition, launched online “a campaign to rescue democracy” with the political thermometer in France rising dangerously.

Political analysts conclude that his exclusion – according to polls – Lepen’s favorite from the 2027 presidential election in France, will rally its voters to its side, further increasing the already high rates of far -right in the country.

For her part, Marin Lepen has begun to weave her narrative. In this she starred as a victim of the system who is the enemy she pursues her and her party with the aim of putting an end to her political ambitions and her political career.

“There are millions of French, who believe in me. For 30 years I have been fighting against injustice and this will continue to do it until the end, “he said on the French television network TF1, recalling – without having to say it – that he continues to lead the strongest parliamentary group in the French National Assembly, where the Government is in the area.

As for the realistic alternative to the current President of the National Coalition, just 29 -year -old Zordan Bardella, to take his place as a Presidential candidate for the National Coalition, Marin Lepen, made it clear that for him – by many – he has not yet come to him, It excludes that there is this possibility, prefers to bet for the time being that the battle he is preparing to give will come out stronger.