‘Judicial Activisim’: Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Responds to Marine Le Pen Case | EUROtoday

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has weighed-in on a courtroom ruling that banned French far-right chief Marine Le Pen from looking for public workplace for 5 years saying it was “left-wing judicial activism.”

Le Pen on Monday was convicted of embezzlement in a watershed ruling that knocked her out of the 2027 presidential race except she will win an enchantment.

“This ruling is clearly left-wing judicial activism. Wherever the right-wing is present, the left and the system will work to get their opponents out of the game,” Bolsonaro stated in an unique interview with Reuters.

“Here and in France, this is pure lawfare,” he added. “It looks like this movement is spreading around the world. The left has found an easy way to perpetuate itself in power by using judicial activism.”

France’s justice ministry didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

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Allies in France and far-right leaders from European nations, together with Italy, Spain and the Netherlands joined in condemning the ruling as judicial overreach.

But others applauded the ruling towards Le Pen, saying the independence of the judiciary and the rule of legislation should be revered after the decide convicted her of misappropriating European Union funds to learn her get together.

The decide stated investigations “showed that these were not administrative errors … but embezzlement within the framework of a system put in place to reduce the party’s costs.”

Brazil’s Supreme Court final week dominated that Bolsonaro will stand trial for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the federal government after he misplaced the 2022 election.

If discovered responsible within the courtroom proceedings, he may face a prolonged jail sentence.

He has denied any wrongdoing and denounced the case as politically motivated.

In 2023, Bolsonaro was barred from public workplace till 2030 for abuse of energy forward of the 2022 elections, when he summoned ambassadors to assault the legitimacy of Brazil’s voting system.