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That's the third EU country to arrest or ban the top opposition candidate or party. Georgescu in Romania, Spartans party in Greece, Le Pen in France. You could even say fourth: head of Gagauzia region in Moldova has been arrested a few days ago. And that's before you consider the attempts to ban AfD in Germany. Is that "democracy"? Would it be "democracy" if, say, Trump jailed Vance's main opponent in 2028?

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Romania is definitely political, but the rest of the decisions are due to independent courts. Nobody, including Le Pen, believes this is politically motivated.

This will help her in the long run too.

That is not what MLP is saying. She said that immediate application of the ineligibility sentence in particular is politically motivated.

And even more precisely, that the judges expressed this political motivation explicitly through the use of MLP running in the presidential election as presenting a risk to public peace.

I'm not claiming it is really in the deliberations as I'm yet to read those.

We're seeing just how "independent" courts really are in the US at the moment. There's no reason to believe they're any more "independent" there, especially in Eastern Europe and Greece.

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