Did the judges lost the spirit of the law, staying in his letter, and who would eventually fight with political means against the galloping ethnicist right? Comment by Kostas Argyros.

Marin Lepen’s condemnation brings the eternal debate about the letter and spirit of the law. The judges decided on the basis of the evidence against her, which were overwhelming and undoubtedly. However, the question is whether they had to reach the decision to deprive her political rights, knowing that they are deprived of the politician steadily preceding the polls in France the right to be a candidate for the country’s presidential presidency in 2027. In this sense, their decision is also political and grants themselves to be politically and gives rise to them. The question is dominant in the European press.

In the role of ‘witness’

The fact that both Lepen herself and the world’s modern far -right, from Ilon Musk and Zaire Bolsonaro to “Je suis marine” Orban in Hungary and Frankish Nostalgos Abaskal in Spain, found the opportunity to talk about a rule. Some did not hesitate to even make comparisons to what is happening in Turkey. Alt Right believes that it acquires a modern witness in one of Europe’s largest countries, at a time when Emmanuel Macron’s France aspires to star on all open fronts on the planet.

Where are the political answers?

This is the second big and also perennial discussion. Can the rise in the far -right be treated with criminal, judicial, administrative measures? The answer is not simple. The left in France insists, for example, in its traditional view that the problem is not addressed with penalties, but with a harsh political confrontation. However, he has not been able to intercept the far -right expansion. On the other hand, every self -sufficient ethnicist can feel that he has the privilege of impunity for illegal acts, arguing that any prosecution against him has a political background?

In any case, some people’s festivities for Lepen’s punishment may be to some extent justified, but they are also premature. It is not, after all, condemning the essence of the extreme policy of the national alarm, but a “formal” case of embezzlement of European money, at a time when a large part of public opinion considers corruption and political “sisters”. The fact that Lepen turns out that for many years she did exactly what she was burning in her rhetoric would probably be enough on her own. Now the underlying sense of “punishment” with underground motives hides to some extent this reality.

A new ‘anti -systemic’ narrative

It is certain that the national alarm in France and the European patriots in Brussels will again “flag” the decision to appear as anti -systemic, to self -establish the “establishment” in Paris and Brussels to invest in the promotion of about a … Lepen’s preventing her candidacy for the presidency, regardless of whether it will apply to the end, does not relieve France of the ghost of the far -right, nor President Macron and its predecessors from their own political responsibilities.