The far -right politician brings together supporters after being found guilty of embezzlement of the European Parliament.
France’s far -right chief Marine Le Pen qualified her conviction as a “political decision” and promised to continue after being found guilty of embezzlement and prohibited from participating in the elections, including the presidential vote in 2027.
“I will not give up,” said Le Pen to make members of his flag from his National Rally Party and supporters who wrapped the Vauban place in Paris on Sunday with the gorn gilded dome of the National Hôtel des Invalides in the background.
She also denounced a “witch hunt” – a sentence used by American president Donald Trump – against his party.
Certain left-wing groups and the centrist camp have organized counterbalances of smuggling in Paris of Republic against the extreme right, seeking what they said to be justice and a front front against the national rally.
The judges who condemned Le Pen received threats.
Jordan Bardella, the best lieutenant in Le Pen and the head of the national rally, told those who had gathered that the court’s decision was aimed at “eliminating him from the presidential race”.
Bardella said that the party did not want to “discredit all judges”, but Le Pen’s conviction was “a direct attack on democracy and an injury to millions of patriotic French people”.
Monday’s judgment, which could crush Le Pen’s dream to win the French presidency in two years, has amazed the country’s political establishment.
Pen call
Natacha Butler of Al Jazeera, postponing from Paris, said that Le Pen hoped that the part of the court’s decision on his essential for the candidacy could be lifted or made shorter so that she can appear in the next elections.
“The Paris Court of Appeal said that there was a chance that he will be able to examine his call in the middle of next year,” said Butler.
“Time would allow him to run possibly in 2027,” she added.
Before the rally on Sunday, Le Pen urged his supporters to be inspired by one of the pre-eminent American defenders of non-violence in the struggle for equal rights for black Americans.
“We will follow the example of Martin Luther King, who defended civil rights,” she told members of the right-wing league from Italy via Videolink when they met in Florence.
During a meeting of the Renaissance party of the President Emmanuel Macron in the suburbs of Paris in the northern working class of Saint-Denis, the former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal accused the right to “attack our judges, to attack our institutions”.
“We, here, will never disqualify a court decision,” said Attal, speaking in the presence of Prime Minister François Bayrou and Edouard Philippe, a former Prime Minister who also hopes to present himself to the presidential elections in 2027.
“You fly, you pay,” said Attal.
He also denounced “unprecedented interference” in the affairs of France, apparently pointing to support Le Pen of Trump and the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Trump criticism
The American president described Le Pen’s ban on “witch hunt” by “European leftists using the law to silence freedom of expression and censor their political adversary”.
Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement of the European Parliament and having received a partly suspended prison sentence and an immediate ban on occupying a public service.
His supporters qualified the political motivation decision, but Macron insisted that the French judicial power was “independent”.
Le Pen worked to transform his party into an eligible force and get rid of his father’s heritage, his co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died in January and was often accused of racism.
Polster Elabe’s latest survey for the BFMTV broadcaster, published on Saturday, suggested that she could gain up to 36% of the vote.
