The Marine Le Pen of France invoked the struggle of Martin Luther King for civil rights on Sunday, since his extreme right party planned to gather its supporters after it was convicted by Emistress and prohibited by public office.
The bomb trial that could crush Le Pen to win the French presidency in 2027 has surprised the political establishment of the country.
Some leftist forces and the Centristas camp organized counter meetings on Sunday against the right end, while the judges who condemned Le Pen have received threats.
On Sunday, before the demonstration, Le Pen urged his supporters to be inspired by one of the preeminent defenders of the United States in the struggle for equal rights for black Americans.
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“We will follow the example of Martin Luther King, who defended civil rights,” he told the members of the Italian right-wing party, who met in Florence, through Video-Link.
“Thank you, Marine, we don’t want to take longer,” said Italian Prime Minister, the Matteo Salvini League League.
“Today will be an important day for you, for France,” he added.
At a meeting of the Renaissance party of President Emmanuel Macron in the Paris suburb of the working class of the North or Saint-Denis, former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal accused the extreme right of “attacking our judges, attacking our institutions.”
“We, here, we will never disqualify a judicial decision,” said Attal, 36, speaking in the presence of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou and his former prime minister Edouard Philippe, who also hopes to run in the 2027 presidential elections.
Bayrou, in a journalistic interview published on Saturday, Tok aims at the next right -wing rally, saying that it was not “healthy or desirable” to organize a demonstration against the court ruling.
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‘Violent Fiesta’
On Monday, Le Pen, 56, was declared guilty of funds from the European Parliament and giving a partially suspended prison period and an immediate prohibition of occupying a public office.
His supporters described the motivated ruling policy, but Macron insisted that the French judiciary is “independent.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, described the sentence as a “witch hunt” of “European leftists who use the law to silence freedom of expression and censor his political opponent.”
Some leftists, including the members of the France of France of the Hard Left (LFI), organized a counter counterpart in their place of the Republique, which attracts several hundred people.
LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard said the extreme right had shown his true colors after years of efforts to become the mainstream.
“The extreme right is a dangerous, dangerous party for democracy and dangerous for the rule of law,” he told reporters. “It is a violent part that even threatens the judges when the decisions of the courses do not adapt to them.”
The extreme right is increasing in France. The surveys indicate that Le Pen, 56, would easily head the first round of the presidential vote of two rounds if she ran.
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‘In support of democracy’
Jordan Bardella, the 29 -year -old boss of the National Rally of Le Pen (RN), has said that the ruling would only increase support for the party.
He called the extreme right rally in the place Vauban in the rich of the 7th District of Paris “a mobilization not against, but in support of French democracy.”
According to police sources, 8,000 people are expected to attend.
Le Pen has worked to turn the party into an eligible force and get rid of his father’s legacy, his co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died in January and was often accused of racism.
The last survey conducted by Elabe as a pollster for the BFMTV station, published on Saturday, showed up to 36 percent of the votes.
Even some of her fiercest opponents say that the extreme right leader should be able to be in the 2027 vote. She has presented an appeal.
But now you run the risk of seeing years of progress, observers say.
Analysts say that Le Pen is forced to play the victim’s letter to retain the support of his voters.
In addition to Martin Luther King, Le Pen has been compared to Alexei Navalny, the leader of the Russian imprisoned opposition who died in an Arctic prison in 2024 after being imprisoned under Vladimir Putin.
The RN is the largest individual part of Parliament and could complicate Bayrou’s life, which does not have the majority in the low house.
The Paris Court of Appeals said it would be the case within a period that could allow him to challenge the surveys if his sentence is in excess or his sentence changed.
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