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Messages of support for the National Rally’s founder, along with attacks on the French judicial system, came from her political allies.
Leaders from Marine Le Pen’s Patriots party across EU countries rallied to her support after the French court ruling on Monday found her guilty of misappropriation of public funds and barred her from running for the next presidential elections in France.Patriots.eu, the European political party to which Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National is affiliated, published a post on X on Monday afternoon, expressing “full support to Marine Le Pen” against what it described as an “alarming authoritarian drift within the European Union”.Leaders of Patriot’s parties have also expressed solidarity with the RN’s founder.“Je suis Marine,” (I am Marine), wrote Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on X.“I back Marine,” was the message in French of Italy’s League leader Matteo Salvini, posted on a picture with the French politician.The League’s delegation in the European Parliament considered the ruling as “political and disproportionate”, and “the greatest judicial scandal of the Fifth [French] Republic”. “Today it is not Marine Le Pen or the Rassemblement National being hit, but democracy,” read a note from the Italian party.“I am shocked by the incredible tough verdict against Marine Le Pen,” wrote the Dutch nationalist leader Geert Wilders, founder and president of PVV, adding that he is confident she “will win the appeal and become President of France”.Statements of solidarity and accusations towards the French judiciary also arrived from Belgium and Greece.“When nationalist politicians gain popularity, the system seeks other, non-democratic ways to silence them,” Tom Van Grieken, president of Flemish sovereigntist party Vlaams Belang, wrote on X.“Today we are all with Marine Le Pen. The instrumentalisation of Justice for political expediency undermines democracy itself,” read a post from Afroditi Latinopoulou, a Greek member of the European Parliament and founder of ultranationalist party The Voice of Reason.Reaction from the European ParliamentOn Monday afternoon the European Parliament resumed its business in Strasbourg and some members reacted to Le Pen’s ban.”Justice has done its job, we need to accept it, and I call on everyone to bear responsibility,” Valérie Hayer, chair of the centrist Renew Europe group, told Euronews.”All Republican forces must stand up against anti-judicial rhetoric, which is a slippery slope”, socialist MEP Chloé Ridel told Euronews. “The first reactions to the verdict of the french justice came from two autocrats, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán, who are crying out about a ‘democratic scandal.’ The irony is striking. In reality, our democracy is showing its strength in the face of their accusations”.
