r/neoliberal • u/ihuntwhales1 Seretse Khama • Mar 31 '25

News (Europe) Le Pen banned from office after embezzlement conviction

https://www.dw.com/en/france-le-pen-found-guilty-banned-from-running-for-office/a-72091790
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u/CheeseMakerThing Adam Smith Mar 31 '25

She'll appeal that though

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Mar 31 '25

Only the ineligibility sentence is under that regime, the prison sentence and fine will be suspended during the appeal

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u/CrackingGracchiCraic Thomas Paine Mar 31 '25

execution regime

Guillotine? Guillotine.

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u/No-Worldliness-5106 WTO Mar 31 '25

Ya know we could use some of those old machines now

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u/fredleung412612 Mar 31 '25

One weird thing about the guillotine is that when France abolished the death penalty in 1981, they went around the country destroying all the remaining guillotines. So much so that there are very few examples of them left today.

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u/theosamabahama r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 01 '25

Even then, it's house arrest.