Yanis Varoufakis: Marine Le Pen election ban is ludicrous - UnHerd

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Varoufakis told UnHerd that the charges against Le Pen were “laughable and ludicrous”, and that to make them “a jailable offence and also a reason to bar her from running in the presidential election” was “mindboggling”. He added: “It really worries me that the liberal establishment is doing its utmost to strengthen the appeal of the neofascist Right in Europe […] Either the law applies to everyone or it applies to no one.”

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Yanis Varoufakis: Marine Le Pen election ban is ludicrous

The conviction of Marine Le Pen is the latest stage of Europe’s “descent into the abyss of totalitarianism”, according to former Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.

^{Rob Lownie (UnHerd)}