Can justice be truly blind? Truly impartial and impervious to biases, pressures and power plays? Can citizens in this day and age agree to accept it when a court bars a presidential front runner from contesting the next election? The party of the French far-right’s Marine Le Pen calls it “an execution of democracy,” the ruling that finds nearly two dozen guilty of running a ‘system’ that funneled 2-point-9 million euros from the European Parliament to National Rally insiders.
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Out of the running? Marine Le Pen conviction upends French politics
