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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen says withheld funds doom her party

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PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen lashed out Sunday at a decision to withhold the payment of a public subsidy for her party, saying it amounted to "certain death" for the National Rally.

Le Pen said two judges decided Friday to withhold a payment of 2 million euros, or nearly half of the 4.5 million-euro subsidy the party was allocated for the year. The funds were due for disbursement Monday.

The judges made the decision amid an investigation into whether funds for European Parliament assistants were misused. Politicians from other French parties also have been accused of misusing such funds.

Le Pen said the subsidy was already six months overdue and was essential for the party, formerly called the National Front, to meet its running costs, notably salaries and rent.

"In confiscating our public subsidy without a judgment in this pseudo-affair of assistants, the investigating judges are applying the death penalty as a precautionary measure," tweeted Le Pen, who advanced to the runoff of France's 2017 presidential election before losing to Emmanuel Macron. She added that the withheld funds amounted to a "will to assassinate the main opposition party."

Le Pen said in an open letter to National Rally supporters that the judges' move was politically motivated. She said her party had only enough money to see it through the end of August and that a website would be set up Sunday evening "to financially save the national movement."
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Full article: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/07/08/world/europe/ap-eu-france-far-right.html
 
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Kurdel

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Watch her say the state stabbed her in the back, and make a new more extreme party more in line with open Trumpism and less dog whistles.
 
Slayven

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I thought they were getting that russian money?
 
Kuldar

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They'll just take the money of their supporters, like the UMP (now called Les Républicains) save themselves from bankrupt.
 
Chekhonte

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Anybody got a link to what the misuse of funds her party is being accused of?
 
Ac30

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svacina said:
She should ask uncle Vlad to foot the bill instead.
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Uncle vlad's banks are already suing her for non-repayment of loans lawl

As much as this thrills me, the fact that it's only her party (that I know of) having funds withheld looks bad. Then again the only other FR party I know of that got caught doing the same was MoDem and LREM basically absorbed them.
 
hjort

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Good. Starve the fascists to death. Metaphorically speaking. Or whatever.
 
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