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Really making it hard to not believe that France is trying to ban a legal candidate by making this cute shim where everything BUT being able to run is subject t
by tekla 2y ago
Really making it hard to not believe that France is trying to ban a legal candidate by making this cute shim where everything BUT being able to run is subject to the appeals process.
- phtrivier 2y agoThere are quite a few things were the sentence can be enforced even during the appeal. For example, you can be jailed before your trial ; you can have your driving license overturned if you kill someone ; and, it turns out, you can get banned from running into élections if you're found guilty of embezzlement. Fortunately for her, the next elections are in 2 years ; I would not be surprised is she get an appeal, a reduced ineligibility sentence to allow her to run in the next legislative election. And she might be happy with that - two round presidential elections are hard for her party, and, more importantly : winning an election is a _terrible_ situation in France.
- soco 2y agoI'm fully aware that in other countries skirting or blatantly ignoring the courts is becoming practice, but I'm definitely not a fan of that practice.
- furyg3 2y agoIf you're caught using steroids before the race, you're banned from running in the race (and may be fined, and may face criminal charges). If you want to appeal that's fine, but you can't run in the race today. She was caught improperly funneling EU funds to her own party (members), which would give her party an unfair advantage in any current political race.
- tekla 2y agoI'm glad to live in a country has strict rules about being able to run for office that has an obscenely high bar before being taken away.
- eclecticfrank 2y agoBeing convicted of a crime is an obscenely high bar.
- tekla 2y agoGood thing convicting a political opponent of a crime has never been used to crush dissidents.
- johnbronnan 2y agoSorry, are you claiming that the independent judiciary who convicted her of embezzling funds considers her their "political opponent"? And that the sentence they handed down which is laid out by the French legal system is tantamount to "crushing dissidents"?
- rsynnott 2y agoI mean, possibly such 'dissidents' should refrain from doing multi-million euro frauds, in that case. Seems like asking for trouble.