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The persecution of Marine Le Pen

The European elites have a selective love of democratic freedoms

12 April 2025

9:00 AM

12 April 2025

9:00 AM

How would Spectator Australia readers react if Prime Minister Albanese was punished with a five-year ban from political office, a four-year prison sentence plus a $180,000 fine – because some of his staff had been discovered working for the ALP? Initial euphoria would be followed even among the most diehard Coalition supporters by a view that this was an affront to democracy.

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