Farage and Le Pen make the same defiant pitch: Only the people can judge us
Farage and Le Pen cast their legal troubles as attacks on democracy as each seeks voter backing before key elections.
- On Tuesday, Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage and National Rally Leader Marine Le Pen announced defiant political moves: Farage resigned his parliamentary seat to force a by-election, while Le Pen launched her 2027 presidential bid after appeal judges shortened her election ban.
- Legal pressures triggered these defiant moves: Le Pen's embezzlement conviction for misusing European Union funds was upheld, while Farage faces a parliamentary probe into an undeclared $6.7 million gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire.
- Casting the ruling as a 'witch hunt,' Le Pen joined Farage, who resigned over what he called an 'establishment hit job,' while U.S. President Donald Trump denounced the proceedings as 'lawfare' on Truth Social.
- By appealing directly to voters, both politicians aim to bypass institutional scrutiny, positioning themselves as outsiders fighting entrenched powers in Britain and France. Farage intends to turn his by-election into a referendum on officials investigating his finances.
- Despite ongoing investigations, polls suggest both candidates maintain significant public support, with each framing their campaign as a referendum on institutional overreach rather than a defense against specific legal allegations.
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The latest battles between Britain's Nigel Farage and France's Marine Le Pen are almost laughable, writes special editor Seppo Varjus.
Considering that nothing can now prevent him from running for president in 2027, Marine Le Pen uses a strategy already tried by Donald Trump, Benyamin Netanyahu or Nigel Farage: establishing a balance of power with justice to achieve its ends.
For Jon Henley, a journalist with the Paris-based "Guardian", the parallels between the leader of the RN and the leader of Reform UK are striking.
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KEZI 9 NewsBy Melissa Bell, CNN Let the people decide. That was the defiant Tuesday message of two of the world’s most famous populists, when Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen announced, with a few hours of difference, their intention to challenge the rules of their countries to raise the same argument before the same jury, with both French and British dominant politics at stake. In France, Marine Le Pen appeared on the evening news to launch his challenging …
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