Lawfare Daily: What French Politics Means for Europe and the United States

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On today's episode, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett spoke with Tara Varma, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the latest in French politics. On March 31, far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement and banned from politics, though polling showed her in the lead for the 2027 presidential elections. In the last few weeks, current French president Emmanuel Macron has been carving out a place for French leadership amidst the upheaval in Europe’s relationship with the United States. Meanwhile, the push to build European defense capacity—and Trump’s new tariffs—are raising a lot of complicated questions.

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1:40.4	Marine Le Pen's former partner, Louis Alio, who's the mayor of a city in the south of France called Perpignan, was also barred from elections.
1:48.9	So a number of other people were convicted, but of course she's the figurehead.
1:52.7	And it's true that she is the embodiment, the incarnation of this party now, as I said, which gathers over a third of the vote chair in France.
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