nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/77c70ab0dfbbeba1 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250407s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/77c70ab0dfbbeba1 doi eng 342 23 Aynès, Camille Author aut Enforcing the Law of Democracy - On the Marine Le Pen Ineligibility Judgment and Its Implications Aynès, Camille Verfassungsblog 2025-04-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier It was a political bombshell. On Monday, 31 March 2025, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right party Rassemblement National (National Rally) in France, was convicted of misappropriation of public funds in the so-called “parliamentary assistants” case. The judgment is marked by an unusual degree of judicial creativity, particularly in its underlying conception of democracy, which may be understood through the lens of militant democracy. Although it does not constitute a political judgment in the traditional, partisan sense, its constitutional and symbolic significance is substantial—and the backlash it has provoked against the judiciary is a cause for concern. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarian Populism Le Pen Marine | 1968– | Rechtsanwältin; Politikerin Marine Le Pen Militant Democracy Rassemblement National elections (DE-588)131997335 gnd Le Pen Marine | 1968– | Rechtsanwältin; Politikerin Bottini, Eleonora Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/marine-le-pen-ineligibility-judgment/ raw object