Le Pen y Farage apelan al tribunal popular

Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage currently share more than just their leadership of two right-wing identity parties. Both have decided to transform their legal troubles into a protracted election campaign. Each in their own way and according to their own style. Both are running in elections they themselves have dubbed referendums on themselves and their own integrity, thus appealing to a tribunal far more lenient than that of judges: their own supporters. In Le Pen's case, a French court has upheld her conviction for misappropriating European Parliament funds, a scheme that lasted for more than eleven years and ended up covering the National Rally's operating expenses. The curious thing here is the sentence itself. The same judges who upheld the embezzlement conviction have lifted the ban that barred her from running in the 2027 presidential elections. They reduced the ban to fifteen months, which she has already served, but confirmed the three-year prison sentence, two of which were suspended and the third with an electronic monitoring bracelet. That same night, Le Pen appealed to the Supreme Court and announced her candidacy on television. Her appeal exempts her from the electronic bracelet until January. She is the favorite for the presidential elections, which will be held in two rounds between April and May. She has no serious rivals, and Macron cannot run since he has served the two terms allowed by law. Across the English Channel, Nigel Farage is attempting a similar move. A few days ago, he resigned his seat for Clacton to run again in the same constituency, thus preempting a parliamentary inquiry into a £5 million payment he received from a cryptocurrency billionaire. Farage doesn't deny receiving the money, claiming it was a personal, unconditional gift. The other parties have decided not to field a candidate, so he'll be up against eccentric figures like Count Binface and the Monster Raving Loony Party. He'll almost certainly win, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory because the questions surrounding the donation will remain. However, it will help him regain the public attention he's recently lost due to the crisis within the Labour Party. The method isn't new. Silvio Berlusconi invented it three decades ago. Berlusconi made legal persecution his rallying cry and repeatedly defied Italian judges. Half of Western politics today draws on this approach, from Donald Trump to Pedro Sánchez, both with their own legal entanglements and both determined to fight the courts. The message resonates because it's identical everywhere. Justice doesn't judge, it persecutes, and the accused is thus transformed into something akin to a political prisoner. It remains to be seen whether the trick will work in the United Kingdom and France. In the UK, parliamentary inquiries brought down Boris Johnson in the past for his parties during the pandemic. In France, public trust in judges remains very high. But disaffection with traditional parties is creating a crack through which these kinds of populist tactics are seeping in. The more lawsuits they face, the more credible the narrative of persecution becomes. Neither of them will have resolved their legal problems; at best, they will have simply buried them under a mountain of votes. In The Counter-Reply: 0:00 Introduction 3:59 Le Pen and Farage appeal to the people's court 35:04 The Great Mosque of Seville 40:51 Merz tied to his partners 48:51 Physical media in PC games · Telegram Channel: https://t.me/lacontracronica · “Against Pessimism”… https://amzn.to/4m1RX2R · “Hispanics. A Brief History of Spanish-Speaking Peoples”… https://amzn.to/428js1G · “The Counter-History of Communism”… https://amzn.to/39QP2KE · “The Counter-History of Spain. Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Country in 28 Episodes”… https://amzn.to/3kXcZ6i · “Against the French Revolution”… https://amzn.to/4aF0LpZ • “Luther, Calvin, and Trent: The Reformation That Never Was”… https://amzn.to/3shKOlK Support La Contra on: • Patreon…   / diazvillanueva   • iVoox… https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contrac... • Paypal… https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Follow me on: • Website… https://diazvillanueva.com • Twitter…   / diazvillanueva   • Facebook…   / fernandodiazvillanueva1   • Instagram…   / diazvillanueva   • LinkedIn…   / fernando-d%c3%adaz-villanueva-7303865   · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/1472764... · Pinterest...   / fernandodiazvillanueva   Find my books at: · Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-V... #FernandoDiazVillanueva #farage #lepen