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Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement of European funds. The question arises, why do some politicians want to be MEPs?

On the fair: A trap closed over Marine Le Pen. The European Parliament functions like a political kindergarten, as confirmed by Turek or Nerudová.

Radim Červenka
2. 4. 2025
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Marine Le Pen and Tomio Okamura

The world was shocked by the bold verdict of a French court, which without hesitation condemned one of the most prominent faces of local politics to a four-year prison sentence. The substance of the whole case, which does not only involve a traditional candidate for the French presidency and the head of local far-right, is also interesting. It turned out that the party uses the European Parliament as a nursery for its politicians, where they can easily get functions.

One of the fundamental pillars of democracy is the right to be elected to elected offices. These include the European Parliament for all member states of the European Union. Every office is good and while the ordinary voter in our country does not recognize the difference compared to elections to the Chamber of Deputies, in France the system of elections to the national parliament is different from the European one.

Among other things, this creates space for those who are in a worse starting position in the dominantly used majority system. This is not just a trifle. This exact situation resulted in a protracted political crisis in France, which also engulfed last year's Olympics there.

Luxusní loft na prodej 3+kk, Praha Modřany
Luxusní loft na prodej 3+kk, Praha Modřany, Praha 4

The European Parliament served as a cash cow for Le Pen

In short, the "one man" party (of course, Marine Le Pen is not a man) succeeded in the European elections. President Emmanuel Macron unexpectedly called early elections to take the wind out of the sails of the European winners. Which he succeeded in, as the one-man party fundamentally lacks personalities to succeed in a personalized majority vote. But somehow this risky political move took the wind out of Macron's own sails.

Perhaps it's not the biggest paradox in the world that the very nationally oriented National Association is successful in the representative body of European cooperation, where, in principle, work is done beyond the national interests of individual states. Any function is good, because money is first and foremost.

But with the generous salary of a European MP, many European representatives of the National Association couldn't make ends meet and used allowances (especially those for European secretaries and assistants) for party operations. It is a question whether purchasing, for example, drugs from the same budget was also similarly sanctioned, but it is simply about violating the rules for political parties.

Similarly, as if the money for the radar into the F-35 was used instead for the army for internet advertising, advising whom to vote for. Handling public money has its rules, because it is not profit from business, but money of all citizens.

Turek, Nerudová, and other members of the political kindergarten chorus

"Every democratically minded person, especially a politician, must now stand behind Marine Le Pen! Even if he disagreed with her in everything. Do you seriously think that ordinary discrepancies in assistant salaries seem like a reason not to participate in democratic presidential elections?"

Czech MEP Filip Turek (independent for Motorists for themselves) commented on the court's verdict.

He points to the politicization of the whole case. It should be noted that he deems "normal" the long-term fictitious employment of these assistants for millions of euros. On the other hand, he may be right in that in a broader perspective it is a common form of public money abuse.

The whole case throws a murky light on the significance of the MEPs themselves. It certainly does not present them as a showcase of parties, as deserving members, whose political career is culminating in the European Parliament.

It appears that for some parties who don't care about the European agenda anyway (The National Assembly presented plans to leave the EU), it's a luxury kindergarten, where a political child is left and enjoys it there. When it grows up, it may be promoted.

Mr Turek himself gives the impression that he collects selfies in Brussels or possibly Strasbourg, after all, he has no experience with politics and the European Parliament is his first stop. The European Parliament has currently issued Jana Nagyová (ANO) for criminal prosecution in the third round of the Stork Nest case. Kateřina Konečná (KSČM) announced her return to real politics after several kindergarten mandates in the European Parliament, and Danuše Nerudová is also gaining political spurs here, because she did not make it to the presidency without a rehearsal from the Euro-political kindergarten.

Sources: author's text, commentary, x.com, AP

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