Marine Le Pen calls embezzlement conviction a ‘nuclear bomb’

The French far-right leader declared that the National Rally would ‘not let the French people have the presidential election stolen from them’ after a court verdict effectively banned her from running in the 2027 presidential race.
Marine Le Pen compared the guilty verdict for embezzlement to a ‘nuclear bomb’ dropped on her by ‘the system’, arguing that ‘it is because we are on the verge of winning the elections’
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