A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions of standing in the next presidential race.
The Kremlin response:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/marine-le-pen-updates-french-far-right-leader-banned-public-office-2025-03-31/
Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin’s spokesperson, in response to Marine Le Pen’s verdict:
“Well, indeed, more and more European capitals are going down the path of trampling over democratic norms. Of course, we do not want to interfere in France’s internal affairs, we have never done so, and this is France’s internal affair.”
“But in general, our observations of European capitals show that they are not at all reluctant to go beyond democracy during the political process.”
I understand they feel butthurt, they invested so much money on her and her party.