What do you think of Marine LePen being banned from running for office?

[Don Alaska]

Marine LePen, the leading candidate in the race for the President of France has been banned by a court in France form running for office for 5 years. Similar things have happened in Hungary, where the court invalidated an election, and may happen in Germany soon as well, since the Nationalist-Populist party there, the AfD, is leading in many polls. What do the folk here form the UK and mainland Europe think of these developments--a valid legal issue or lawfare as a last gasp of the Globalists?

 

[Yvonne Smith]

It definitely looks like they are trying to stop her from being elected, just the same way as they tried to use the courts here with made-up accusations against President Trump. Since it is in France, there is probably not much that other countries can do about this, and sanctions would only hurt the French people, who are actually supporting Marine LePen.
This is the same thing that Z has been doing in Ukraine, and stopping the people there from throwing hi out of office and getting in a real president who wants peace.

 

[Susannah]

I don’t know as much about LePen as I should but my impression is in line with what Yvonne said.

Here the left is still using judges to prevent President Trump from deporting criminal illegal alien gang members from the country.Democrat voters should ask themselves why their party wants to keep killers, rapists, human traffickers and child abusers in the US.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I believe that if you do not have documented evidence that something is a fact, then you should not talk about it. Since I know nothing about this, and see no evidence that supports or discredits this story as the majority of the press isn't saying very much about it, and I don't consider news agencies not running stories as "documented evidence" of anything, then I too, have nothing to say.

 

[Nomad]

That is over corruption charges, right? I wish our courts could also ban corrupt politicians from running the office. Corruption is so rampant here.

 

[Don Alaska]

That is over corruption charges, right? I wish our courts could also ban corrupt politicians from running the office. Corruption is so rampant here.

Yes, corruption charges of a sort, but it is about mixing up campaign funds for the European Parliament and the French Parliament campaigns. It appears to happen quite often and is usually followed by a fine. LePen is being treated differently from other French politicians.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Maybe we should lend Elon to the EU?

 

[Don Alaska]

Maybe we should lend Elon to the EU?

He still has a lot to do here. He is the highest U.S. taxpayer in the history of the nation--$5 billion in taxes or something like that. The Democrats are still accusing him of tax evasion. What idiots.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

The AfD seems to have a stronger position each day. Mertz is already in trouble due to immigration policy and a big spending and borrowing package.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Marine LePen, the leading candidate in the race for the President of France has been banned by a court in France form running for office for 5 years. Similar things have happened in Hungary, where the court invalidated an election, and may happen in Germany soon as well, since the Nationalist-Populist party there, the AfD, is leading in many polls. What do the folk here form the UK and mainland Europe think of these developments--a valid legal issue or lawfare as a last gasp of the Globalists?

France, like Europe, in general, was following the WEF playbook. The only thing that saved the US is our actual Constitution. I would hope freedom loving people there would be enough to stand against the corruption. But It would be harder than they know.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Marine LePen, the leading candidate in the race for the President of France has been banned by a court in France form running for office for 5 years. Similar things have happened in Hungary, where the court invalidated an election, and may happen in Germany soon as well, since the Nationalist-Populist party there, the AfD, is leading in many polls. What do the folk here form the UK and mainland Europe think of these developments--a valid legal issue or lawfare as a last gasp of the Globalists?

Nationalist Party? I think all nations should protect their culture if thats what she is doing. Of course, France is being invaded like the other Western nations, so it seems to be 'par for the course' now.

 

[Don Alaska]

France, like Europe, in general, was following the WEF playbook. The only thing that saved the US is our actual Constitution. I would hope freedom loving people there would be enough to stand against the corruption. But It would be harder than they know.

Our written Constitution has saved Americans from a lot of stuff that goes on in other places. Our government has corrupted it somewhat, but the basis is still there.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Our written Constitution has saved Americans from a lot of stuff that goes on in other places. Our government has corrupted it somewhat, but the basis is still there.

Yes it is.

 

[galty]

This is what happens with PR.

France Election Results: How Le Pen Party Won Most Votes But Ended Up in 3rd Place

3 min readThe French election results showed that the “alliance of dishonour” between President Emmanuel Macron and the far left effectively blocked the populist National Rally from gaining a majority despite the Le Pen party having won the most votes. According to the French Interior Ministry...

www.cf.org

 

[Don Alaska]

This is what happens with PR.

France Election Results: How Le Pen Party Won Most Votes But Ended Up in 3rd Place

3 min readThe French election results showed that the “alliance of dishonour” between President Emmanuel Macron and the far left effectively blocked the populist National Rally from gaining a majority despite the Le Pen party having won the most votes. According to the French Interior Ministry...

www.cf.org

I understand how the votes can be manipulated in a multi-party system. That is one of the benefits of a two-party system as we have in the U.S. Of course, there is a different set of issues with the two-party way of doing things too. The Electoral College system was set up to nullify some of those issues. It seems that in several elections recently, the party with the most votes essentially loses. It happened in Romania, Germany, and France, and perhaps other places as well. France is the prototype for those shenanigans though.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

That was not why the Electoral College was set up.

 

[Bobby Cole]

That was not why the Electoral College was set up.

Note that @Don Alaska wrote that the electoral college nullifies “issues” which it indeed does do.
The popular vote among the most populated states has the ability to all but cancel out those states with a lesser population ergo the Electoral vote does nullify or if you will, make the problem less of an issue.
In its very essence, the Electoral college was indeed set up to make sure the popular vote wasn’t the overwhelming factor when Presidential elections are held.

Alas, in another arena of thought: Constitutionally speaking, the American population as a whole does not have the “right” to vote in a Presidential election.
We vote yes, but it isn’t among our rights to vote for whom we wish to make the President.

 

[Don Alaska]

Note that @Don Alaska wrote that the electoral college nullifies “issues” which it indeed does do.
The popular vote among the most populated states has the ability to all but cancel out those states with a lesser population ergo the Electoral vote does nullify or if you will, make the problem less of an issue.
In its very essence, the Electoral college was indeed set up to make sure the popular vote wasn’t the overwhelming factor when Presidential elections are held.

Alas, in another arena of thought: Constitutionally speaking, the American population as a whole does not have the “right” to vote in a Presidential election.
We vote yes, but it isn’t among our rights to vote for whom we wish to make the President.

Thanks for recognizing that I did not say the Electoral College was set up to purposely do some of the things mentioned, but the results of the establishment of the Electoral College makes all the states important and that in itself solves many of the issues that are experienced by those nations that have parliamentary systems of government. Parliamentary systems are safer, and that is why when the U.S. "remakes" governments such as Iraq, a parliamentary system is established, not a presidential system. Presidential systems require an engaged, educated electorate hopefully with the right to bear arms. If those conditions are not met, p[residential systems tend to fall into dictatorships. That is why there is a movement here to downgrade the educational systems and do away with the Second Amendment here.