Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺<p>French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Monday slammed a "political decision" after being convicted for embezzlement and banned from standing in an election for five years with immediate effect. Ariane Bogain, a lecturer in French at the University of Northumbria, says that the far-right's harsh rhetoric against the judiciary is a political strategy to weaponize a judicial decision and make political gains.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarineLePen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLePen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfxEmzpj6iY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=XfxEmzpj6iY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>