Marine Le Pen and 8 French Euro MPs were found guilty of misappropriation of public funds. It is about the fictional hiring of assistants in the European Parliament. The court estimated that the full failure was €2.9 million, as a consequence of "the European Parliament's payment of those who actually worked for the far-right party".
— I do not undertake to justice the legitimacy of Marine Le Pen from a legal standpoint. Yes, I support the settlement of irregularities in spending public money, regardless of whether people from the left, right or center do it," says Onet Dr. Witold Sokała, an expert in global relations, a writer of the "Journal of Legal Newspapers".
— On the another hand, as for the political effects, I inform the opponents of the National Unity against excessive optimism. Alone Mrs. Le Pen has a distinctly larger negative electorate than her pupil and successor, Jordan Bardell. So this is his start in elections, which at this point seems natural, will be an even greater challenge for the left-liberal camp and the average right-wing camp – he points out.
— In addition For any undecided voters, today's conviction can be a stimulus, pushing them towards the National Unity. A small out of spite, a small out of fear of utilizing the courts by the ruling camp for ad hoc organization needs and eliminating uncomfortable rivals, of course, as long as the curious and her PRs themselves are able to present this to the public. This will not be peculiarly difficult, due to the fact that the actions for which Le Pen was convicted — or “left” hiring assistants and even members of their families — were common practice in French political parties for many years and fewer people made a problem of it, says Dr. Sokała.
