Politics. "They want to steal 2027 from you": Marine Le Pen calls on her supporters to "rise up" after her conviction
National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen , facing immediate ineligibility, called on Thursday in Narbonne (Aude) to use the 2026 municipal elections to "rise up" against what she described as "an attempt to confiscate democracy."
"In the 2024 legislative elections, they stole your victory. Today, they want to steal your victory in 2027," the presidential election from which she could be excluded, she declared during her traditional May Day rally.
"In a year, in 2026, it will be the municipal elections. They will give you the opportunity to stand up against their attempt to confiscate democracy and take it back into your own hands," declared Marine Le Pen.
Speech interrupted by anti-Semitism activistsDuring this meeting in Narbonne, several activists from the anti-Semitism collective "Nous vivrons" (We Will Live) intervened, chanting "You are not the shield of the Jews," before being expelled from the room by security, reports TF1.
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On March 31, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced Marine Le Pen to five years of immediate ineligibility in the case of the party's MEP assistants, which also earned her four years in prison, two of which were suspended.
The Paris Criminal Court found that she was at the "heart" of a system of embezzlement of public funds set up to pay party employees with European Parliament money between 2004 and 2016. The total amount of embezzlement was €4.4 million. Marine Le Pen has appealed the conviction, and a new trial is expected to take place in 2026.
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