The irony of criticizing a flaw in the system after supporting the most serious flaw in the system

When presenting a political discourse, you can adopt a reformist or anti-establishment position, but you must be consistent with it.

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Marine Le Pen, convicted of embezzlement of public funds

This Monday, Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement of public funds. The sentence includes four years in prison - two of which may be replaced by the mandatory use of an electronic bracelet -, a fine of 100,000 euros and a five-year ban from holding public office. This sentence would prevent Le Pen from running in the 2027 French presidential elections, in which she was considered the favorite candidate.

His party claims that French democracy “is being executed”

From Le Pen's party, the National Rally, its current president, Jordan Bardella, has stated: "Today it is not only Marine Le Pen who is being unjustly condemned: it is French democracy that is being executed." One wonders if he would say the same if the person condemned were a political rival and not a member of his party. It should be noted that in 2021, following Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for corruption, Marine Le Pen stated: "In a democracy, we fight with ideas, we fight politically, we do not fight through magistrates who could decide who can stand as a candidate and who cannot."

It must be remembered that one of the democratic principles is that the law is equal for all, whether a shopkeeper, a baker, an office worker, or a candidate for the presidency of the French Republic. If you accept the democratic rules, you must assume that a politician is not above the law. This applies to Spain, where Pedro Sánchez's government is dedicated to attacking judges who investigate socialist corruption, and to any other country, including France.

The French judicial system and its flaws

Of course, a democracy can have many flaws, and in fact, Western democracies do have quite considerable ones. Some of them affect the judicial system, also in France, as Luis Rivas points out today on Vozpópuli from Paris. Right now, on social media, there are already many Le Pen supporters complaining about the system. They believe that an injustice has been committed against the National Rally candidate and that the system has unleashed a political witch hunt against her because of her particular political discourse.

According to this thesis, Le Pen would be the victim of a flaw in the system or the system itself. I won't go into that thesis because it's not the purpose of this article. I'll refer to what I pointed out in the opening lines. In a democracy, it's legitimate to have an anti-system discourse, but if you do, at least be consistent with it. There's no point in denouncing the flaws of the system if you've actively collaborated with some of them, and particularly serious ones at that.

The flaws of the system that Marine Le Pen supported

One of them, in the case of France, is aggressive secularism, which treats religion as if it were a scourge on society. Le Pen supported this aggressive secularism by calling for a ban on religious symbols in public spaces, a measure that was clearly directed against the Islamic community but that would have also affected Christians and Jews. Such a measure would violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18 of which states:

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Yet that is not the worst flaw in the French system. Last year, the French National Assembly amended the Constitution to classify abortion as a "right", a legal aberration that violates the right to life and sentences innocent, defenseless human beings to death in their prenatal years. Le Pen and the vast majority of her party's deputies voted in favor of this atrocity, aligning themselves with those other parties that many of Le Pen's supporters describe as "globalist" and "establishment parties."

In any country, democratic or not, sentencing an innocent person to death is the gravest injustice that can be committed. Le Pen supported that injustice, immersed in a throwaway culture that considers certain human lives disposable. She voted for this because she had the peace of mind that she had already been born and, therefore, that death sentence would not fall on her. Ironically, after supporting this grave injustice, her supporters denounce that Le Pen has been treated unfairly by the very system she supported, voting for its gravest flaw. The difference between unborn children and Le Pen is that she has had the opportunity to commit a crime, while they have not.

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Photo: Marine Le Pen.