Hungary called Le Pen's sentence the permissiveness of liberal democracy

The verdict against the leader of the French National Unification Party, Marine Le Pen, is the permissiveness of liberal democracy. This was announced on April 1 by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.

"Yesterday's verdict in France clearly showed everyone what 'liberal democracy' means: patriots can be removed from business at any cost — by judicial decisions, external interference, attempts," he wrote on Facebook (owned by Meta, a company whose activities are recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation).

The Hungarian Foreign Minister clarified that Brussels can "do anything", including deleting messages about orders of expired vaccines for billions of euros, hacking mobile phones and trading insider information.

On March 31, a court in Paris found Le Pen guilty of embezzling European Parliament funds in a case involving the creation of fictitious jobs. She was sentenced to four years in prison, two of which were suspended, and the rest were placed under house arrest while wearing an electronic bracelet. The politician's lawyer has already stated that he intends to appeal the verdict.

On April 1, political analyst Alexander Asafov shared with Izvestia that the verdict against Le Pen was politically motivated and aimed at preventing her from participating in the next presidential election. Philippe De Vel, Doctor of Law, expressed a similar opinion in an interview with Izvestia, stressing that Le Pen's guilty plea in the case of parliamentary assistants had a political bias from the very beginning.