Thank you!!

I find her a bit banal, tbh

I know, Joris, I’ve lived there since 2015! But all of them were able to run for office while appealing their cases. That’s the difference and it will matter for the public.

They are doing politics, as they do everywhere.

Again, the question is not what you see, but rather the narrative that they will spin. It will look like there is a political elite full of people who have committed similar crimes but are still in politics and the only one who is excluded is MLP. It will deepen the public’s distrust in the system

It’s great that she’s prosecuted, that’s how it should be, but making her ineligible by a ruling precisely at the time when her party is the most popular is a recipe for disaster IMHO.

The problem is not the fact that she was prosecuted, but rather that she’s been prosecuted under a new law that makes her ineligible for public office. That makes it that she’s become an exception. Others who committed equivalent crimes were not excluded from politics.

I personally love Marine Tondelier but she means nothing for most people and represents almost no one.

I agree with everything you’re saying in principle. But politics don’t work on the basis of principles nor laws, and currently the whole political system in France is extremely fragile. This will backfire.