French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is investigated over alleged illicit financing in 2022 vote
Associated PressJUL 2024
These RN members have spent years cheating Europe's parliamentary system out of millions. After years of investigation, incriminating documents and testimony — most notably correspondence between party leaders — show that Le Pen and her colleagues deserve whatever punishments they're due.
Le Pen is being politically prosecuted to keep her and her increasingly popular views on immigration away from power. As with Donald Trump in America, France's left-wing establishment is using the justice system to drum up bogus charges against a woman they see as a political threat. If anyone is committing a crime, it's the government.
There's a 41% chance that Le Pen will be elected President of France in 2027, according to the Metaculus prediction community.