France. Marine Le Pen condemnation: That the extreme right and the privileged fall!
ByGustavo Garcia
last monday 31 In March, Marine Le Pen's conviction for embezzlement of public funds made the news., the political leader of the French far-right National Rally party (National Gathering). Accused of creating positions with funds from the European Union to guarantee salaries for her family circle, meet personal and party expenses. Le Pen was sentenced to 4 years in prison, of which two could serve under house arrest and two of them suspended, plus a disqualification from running for elections and holding public office during 5 years.
The fish dies through the mouth
If someone tried to define themselves as “anti-system” in France, in these last years of capitalist crisis and anger against those who governed, era Marine Le Pen. Your hate speech, proto-fascist, It was accompanied by a “fierce struggle” against the privileges of the political caste that has governed and governs, reaching the limit of openly declaring in 2013 that whoever is accused of the charge for which she was convicted should be disqualified "for life".
Although she is accused of several crimes, Centrally, the scandal arises because it created positions of assistants, during her term as a member of the European Parliament in the period 2004 a 2017, for her ex husband, his brother-in-law and even his deceased father's servant, the fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen. People who, Besides, They never worked for such tasks.
All solidarity with… Le Pen?!
This fact of high content of hypocrisy, although it caused logical indignation in broad popular strata and joy at the condemnation in many others., did not push the National Group to withdraw, but on the contrary, They are currently deploying a campaign against the judges who condemned their highest political leadership, «against the institutions and the system». From their campaign they argue that democracy is in danger, since it violates the freedom of participation in elections as a candidate. We are not surprised: Marine Le Pen is the main figure of the extreme right, She participated in the last runoff against the current president Emmanuel Macron and is a strong candidate for the next presidential elections in 2027. You don't want to be left out so easily. For this reason they are in permanent mobilization, to the point that they mobilized on Sunday 6 of April, for the second time in a week. Political moves that the mass media describe as similar to those of Trumpism.
But unfortunately not only did he have an offensive solidarity campaign from his space friends, But the entire political spectrum up to Mélenchon's left has hesitated and even expressed concern about the sentence.. This is how the leader of La Francia Insumisa (La France Insoumise – LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon has said that“The decision to remove an elected official should be made by the people.”, explaining that“Insoumise France has never had the option of using the courts to get rid of the National Group.”. We are fighting it at the polls and in the streets, through the mobilization of the French people”. Puzzling position.
But it turns out thatLiberation, a few days ago, reported that Jean-Luc Mélenchon was at the center of a judicial investigation opened in 2018. A report from the European Anti-Fraud Office concluded that “irregularities” worth 500.000 euros. Nevertheless, nor the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) nor any other person have yet been charged in this proceeding, the result of which is not inevitably that of a trial.
Not only that politically he is seeking to protect himself from a possible investigation, trial and conviction, but also in this attempt he remains attached to characters from the extreme right such as Éric Zemmour, of Reconquista, who defended Le Pen's right to stand for election, also explaining that"It is not up to the judges to decide who the people should vote for".
A revolutionary policy against privileges
In the editorial of the NPA Revolutionaries[1] expressed with fair clarity the need to demand the immediate application of the penalty. Le Pen should not stand for election even though many are mouthful denouncing that “democracy is in danger”. Because they finally remember democracy when it suits them, They maintain this democracy as long as it guarantees their profits and contains the anger of the workers, but as soon as it becomes inevitable to cover up their corruption and they come against them, they try by all means to escape him. We never saw any of these characters “worried” about the repression of social protest or the budget cuts in health and education., Wouldn't that be defending democracy too?? ¡Hypocrites!
To end corruption we believe that it is necessary to move towards another model: Doing politics cannot be a path to individual enrichment. That's why politicians should win like a director of an educational establishment; if they decide on the public, They have to use the public by law, enough of treating yourself in private clinics and sending your children to private schools and the revocation of the mandate as a fundamental axis.
Defeat the far right, from the hand of corrupt justice?
By last, We know that defeating the extreme right is more complex than a sentence through this justice that frees violent people, persecutes migrants and condemns workers who exercise their right to organize unions or protest.. The class character of this justice will only change when the workers, our class, Through political power let us transform this system, and with him, all institutions. But for that task, organization is key. Let's build it in the streets, in our workplaces, in the faculties. Because the world should be governed by those who make it run
[1] https://npa-revolutionnaires.org/marine-le-pen-se-prend-la-prison-ferme-quelle-reclame-pour-dautres/
