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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Any French commenters able to contextualize this news for the rest of us? Le Pen's party has been gaining popularity in recent years, if I recall correctly. How is this likely to impact them? Are they organized enough to continue on without her, or is this likely to seriously hurt their electoral chances?

It's always good to see a fascist lose but I'm not tuned in enough to French politics to know the full significance of this.

[–] idefix 4 points 2 weeks ago

Financing parties is complicated by design as the French system tries to avoid interference from companies or wealthy individuals. RN was struggling because they are greedy incompetent pigs. So they decided collectively to use the money dedicated by the European parliament to recruit parliamentary assistants to finance the party's activities. And they got caught.

This won't affect their chances as racist voters will still vote for racist candidates, whatever the candidate. We will just have a new racist guy (Jordan Bardella) instead of Le Pen.

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