Marine Le Pen, leader of France's National Rally, was sentenced to four years in prison (two suspended) and is disqualified from running for office. In a heated interview, she condemned the ruling as politically driven, asserting that millions of French citizens are being robbed of their candidate. Le Pen plans to appeal, claiming her disqualification undermines democracy and has violated the rule of law. She criticizes the judicial process as authoritarian and alleges that the judge acted under external pressures, questioning the legitimacy of her conviction.
Le Pen stated, 'Tonight there are millions of French people unimaginably outraged... judges are using practices that I thought were only typical of authoritarian regimes.'
She denounced her sentence, saying, 'The rule of law has been totally violated by the decision that has been taken... which means making my appeal useless.'
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