Zakharova compared Le Pen's sentencing to the agony of liberal democracy

The verdict handed down to Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French parliamentary National Unification Party, points to the serious decline of democracy in Europe. On March 31, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, told TASS.

"The agony of liberal democracy," Zakharova commented.

On March 31, Le Pen was sentenced to four years in prison and five years in prison. It clarifies that the sentence must be executed "immediately." She is accused of embezzlement of public funds.

On the same day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that European countries do not shy away from going beyond democracy during the political process.