Marine Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Rally party, was convicted of embezzling European Parliament funds through fake job contracts. This conviction has barred her from elections for five years, inciting anger and disbelief among her supporters. Jocelyn Dessigny, a member of the RN, is organizing a protest rally to oppose what Le Pen describes as judicial tyranny. This rally signifies a potential shift in strategy for Le Pen as she may transition from a mainstream political image back to a more populist stance, reflecting her party's core anti-immigration sentiments.
After a two-month trial in Paris, Le Pen was found guilty of organising a system of fake job contracts to embezzle more than 4m of European parliament funds between 2004 and 2016.
Dessigny now found himself hurriedly organising car-shares to Paris where, on Sunday, Le Pen will hold an open-air protest rally to challenge what she called a tyranny of judges.
Calling a protest rally in Paris is a departure for Le Pen, who for more than a decade has endeavoured to present her party as a mainstream operation that is able to govern.
Political commentators speculated that after the embezzlement verdict, Le Pen's party might now revert to a more overtly populist approach.
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