Bénédicte de Perthuis, the judge who sentenced Le Pen for embezzling EU funds and barred her from running in France’s 2027 presidential election, was placed under police protection on Monday night over alleged death threats she received, domestic press reported.
This is completely wrong, the courts are one of the pillars of democracy, and their job is to interpret the law, including laws that are supposed to protect democracy.
It is exactly the failure of doing that, that allowed Trump to become president, even after he tried to take power forcefully, and is now threatening democracy in USA.
What the courts did in Romania and in France is the right thing to do, when fundamental rules of democracy are broken.
She is banned for 5 years, so she will still have a chance, and of course her party still has a chance. It’s simply wrong to claim that her breaking the rules of democracy personally, should not have consequences for her eligibility.