Marine Le Pen in the European Parliament. Marine Le Pen, speaking to supporters, announced the official start of her presidential campaign. Marine Le Pen was beautiful

Congress of future winners. This is how the participants of the conference of national-conservative, right-wing and anti-migrant forces of Europe positioned themselves, who gathered in the capital of the Czech Republic, which came under the control of populists, Prague, to compare watches and agree on coordination of actions in the struggle for a “Europe of nations and freedoms”, against the European Union, which is rapidly turning into a totalitarian and anti-people superstate.

The forum, which was attended by the leader of the National Front of France Marine Le Pen, the head of the Freedom Party of the Netherlands Geert Wilders, members of the leadership of the Italian League of the North and the Austrian Freedom Party (APS) - Lorenzo Fontana and Georg Mayer, representatives of the Europe of Nations and Freedoms faction in the European Parliament from Belgium, Britain, Romania, Poland and other countries, was organized by the Vice Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies (lower house) of the Czech Parliament, Chairman of the Movement "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD) Tomio Okamura. His party controls over 10% of the seats in the Czech parliament. The national-conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the third largest party in the German parliament, this time did not send its representatives to the pan-European forum of right-wing parties. Of course, for tactical, not principled reasons. All the soul of the AfD was with its European allies.

Marine Le Pen was beautiful

The star of the forum was, as expected, the sparkling Marine Le Pen. She told it like it is, frankly and honestly, for which she is adored by a third of the French who voted for her in the second round of the presidential election, despite the frantic campaign to discredit and discriminate against this politician, who is the conscience of France.

Le Pen, in her speech at the forum, stated:

The European Union stops breathing. There is hope that we will destroy this terrible organization from within. We must act like a conqueror." She expressed the hope that the right-wing and nationalist parties are able to defeat the supporters of the EU in its current form in the upcoming 2019 European Parliament elections, and that they can do away with the structure that "leads the continent to destruction.

The leader of the "National Front" is sure that the current EU will be replaced by the Union of European Peoples - a new "Union of European Nations", a free association of European peoples, providing for "voluntary cooperation between countries based on respect, their political and economic interests." However, for starters, Le Pen believes, it is necessary to restore the abolished borders between the states of the Schengen zone and eliminate the European Commission.

The French politician called it a “historic event” and considered the news about the formation of a new Austrian government by anti-immigrant parties, almost half of whose members belong to the APS participating in the Prague forum, to be confirmation of her forecast.

Le Pen also wished Russian President Vladimir Putin to win the presidential election in 2018, "because we believe that France and Russia should improve bilateral relations."

Okamura as an example of successful integration

Tomio Okamura, Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders at the forum of European anti-immigrant parties in Prague. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

Another star of the forum was its host, SPD leader Tomio Okamura, an incredibly popular politician of Japanese-Korean-Czech origin in the Czech Republic. This man is a clear example of what European integration should be like.

The politician explained that the project of the Union of European Peoples involves maintaining the free movement of citizens and goods in Europe while strengthening the security of its population, protecting its traditions and values. The SPD leader also warned of the danger of "Muslim colonization of Europe."

Wilders supported the countries of Eastern and Central Europe in their conflict with Brussels

Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, which came second in his country's last parliamentary elections only because the winning party stole his anti-migrant and populist slogans, endorsed the position of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, which refuse to accept illegal migrants under EU quotas.

The politician urged them not to give in, despite the European Commission's lawsuit to the European Court of Justice, and "to keep their doors tightly closed" to illegal immigrants. He especially praised the Czech Republic, which now has a populist and anti-migrant government, a third of whose population negatively assesses their country's membership in the EU, ranking first among Eurosceptics within the community.

Vladimir Putin received Marine Le Pen in the Kremlin

Leftists and liberals failed to disrupt the forum

The Prague conference of right-wing parties was attempted to be disrupted by fascist methods by left-liberal demonstrators, several hundred of whom staged a noisy demonstration not far from the hotel where the forum was held. To protect its participants, the Prague authorities attracted security forces, mounted police and even helicopters. The event ended without incident, with the Soros hirelings and the protesters they fooled, nothing came of it. The conference ended on an optimistic note, the struggle for a real Europe continues and gains momentum.

The European Parliament has stripped the leader of the National Front party, Marine Le Pen, of her immunity. Now she could face charges of financial misconduct and distribution of images with scenes of violence.

Marine Le Pen (Photo: Panoramic via ZUMA Press / TASS)

The European Parliament voted to strip the leader of the National Front party and French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen from parliamentary immunity, due to the fact that she posted on her Twitter photos with scenes of violent actions committed by militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia, Reuters reports.

Formerly the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs votes.

In December 2015, Le Pen published several photographs of ISIS victims on her microblog in protest against the comparison of the National Front with the militants of the group. One of the images showed an American journalist, James Foley, who was executed by militants.

The removal of parliamentary immunity means for Le Pen that a lawsuit can now be brought against the leader of the National Front on charges of distributing materials "with particularly cruel scenes of violence." As punishment for this crime, Le Pen could face a fine of €75,000 or imprisonment for up to three years.

In addition to accusations of distributing materials with scenes of violence, Le Pen may face accusations of financial fraud.

The Financial Directorate of the European Parliament sent her a notice demanding to reimburse the debt in the amount of €298.5 thousand by January 31, 2017. This amount is the salary of Le Pen's assistant in the European Parliament, Catherine Grisey, for 2010-2016. In addition, the European Parliament demanded that Le Pen reimburse another €41.5 thousand to compensate for the salary of her bodyguard Thierry Legier. The EP Financial Directorate accuses Le Pen of the fact that her assistant and bodyguard received a salary, but were not even in Brussels at that time, but worked for the benefit of the National Front in Paris.

Marine Le Pen has been an MEP for over 13 years. She currently heads the Europe of Nations and Freedoms faction there, which unites 35 far-right deputies from the European parties of Austria (Austrian Freedom Party), Belgium (Flemish Interest), Italy (League of the North), the Netherlands (Freedom Party), Poland (New Right Congress) and France (Front National).

In addition, Marine Le Pen is taking part in the struggle for the presidency of France, the first round of elections of which is scheduled for April 17, 2017.

In France, the active phase of the presidential campaign began. The leader of the "National Front" Marine Le Pen officially entered the fight for the main post, who is predicted to win in the first round. However, polls show that former Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron could overtake her in the second round. Although more recently, Francois Fillon was predicted to win, whose rating fell after the publication of compromising information related to the earnings of his wife. Nevertheless, the alignment of political forces may change more than once.

School holidays in France began with a political weekend. Each candidate found a reason to go to the voters last weekend, and some of them even in several places at the same time. The hologram of the socialist Mélenchon, speaking in Lyon, echoed him in Paris. Together with Benoit Amon, who became the official candidate of the ruling socialists (they are considered outsiders of the race), all attention was focused on the leader of the National Front. Marine Le Pen presented her 144 Commitments program. This is the name of a weighty document, and it contains decisive measures: to leave the European Union, NATO and eradicate Islamism by expelling 11,000 people from the list of potentially dangerous people.

“I propose to deprive French citizenship of persons who have passports of other countries and are convicted of terrorist activities. We do not intend to live under the threat of Islamic fundamentalism, and therefore we cannot accept people on our soil who seek to harm France,” said Marine Le Pen.

But in fact the first point of the program is to change the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. We are talking about the 11th article, about referendums. The leader of the "National Front" proposes to use them more freely and more widely, and on popular initiative. How the people, Le Pen's voters, reacts to these proposals is easy to judge by the reaction in the hall.

“It is now very important for us to choose someone who will put France on the right path. Now there is always one scandal, then another, everyone is involved in them. You need someone you can rely on. So, today we listened to Marine Le Pen, and it seemed to us that her speech was 100% correct,” the rally participants say.

After the rally - a flash mob from the party. Donations are collected in the unfurled giant flag of France. Fundraising is more of a response to the persecution of the prosecutor's office. The court ordered Marine Le Pen to return 300,000 euros to the European Parliament. The money allocated for the salaries of assistants, she allegedly spent on her personal assistant and on the security guard. Le Pen refused to return an impressive amount to European officials. And her ratings immediately soared even higher.

According to the latest opinion polls, Marine Le Pen tops the top three, beating Francois Fillon. The financial scandal surrounding the Republican candidate's wife seriously damaged his image and rating. He allegedly paid his wife a salary for a fictitious job - in eight years he ran into almost a million euros. After, Fillon arranged for his wife to work at his friend's office, where she also received hundreds of thousands of euros in two years, writing just a couple of notes. When the prosecutor's office came to the editorial office with questions, Fillon's comrades suddenly renounced their friendship. The candidate denies his guilt.

“False statements, even repeated a thousand times, will never amount to a half-truth. I feel cold anger in the face of such base slander. However, I will remain unshakable, because you can see very well: all this does not correspond to my personality at all, the project that we are defending has turned out to be under the gun now, ”said François Fioyne.

At an emergency meeting with fellow party members, he admitted that his campaign could be thwarted. familiar scenario. The leader of the pre-election race at the climax suddenly finds himself on the verge of withdrawing his candidacy. Dominique Strauss-Kahn found himself in such a situation in the last elections, who was considered president without five minutes. He, the head of the International Monetary Fund, was accused of raping a hotel maid, arrested at a New York airport, and four months later, the Manhattan prosecutor's office closed the case due to doubts about the veracity of the maid's testimony. But by that time, after all the ups and downs and humiliations, Strauss-Kahn had already been forced to resign from the post of the IMF and refuse to nominate his candidacy for president.

In 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front, could beat Jacques Chirac in the second round. Then the contender for the presidency was even accused of torture during his service in Algeria. As a result, his rating dropped sharply, and he lost the election. So this time with Fillon. The prosecutor's office is still sorting it out, and opinion polls already show that two-thirds of the citizens no longer trust the Republican leader.

The scandal played into the hands of the third candidate. Three years ago, no one knew about Emmanuel Macron in politics - he ran the Rothschild bank. Hollande's government made him minister of the economy. Less than a year ago, Macron renounced the Socialist Party, founded the Forward! and declared himself an independent candidate. Now he is predicted to advance to the second round.

“You see, there are three of us here. My friend is a centrist, my girlfriend is right-wing, and I am left-wing, and the three of us came to this rally. This is something unprecedented. This does not happen in France. Three mindsets that came together,” says Emmanuel Macron's campaign rally participant.

The former Minister of Economy, it seems, is also not all right with financial reporting. Macron allegedly could use his ministerial post to prepare an electoral program - he almost squandered his annual hospitality budget in just a few months. Macron denies his guilt, like all the other leaders of the presidential race, which can already be renamed into a "war of compromising evidence."

Europe makes a choice

2017 is being held in Europe under the sign of elections. The composition of the parliament will be renewed in six EU member states at once, and new presidents will be elected in three states. Voting is also taking place in two EU candidate countries. DW sums up the results of the past elections and talks about the main intrigues of the upcoming ones.

March elections in the Netherlands

The right-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, won the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands on March 15 with 21.3 percent of the vote. At the same time, Rutte's main opponent, the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Geert Wilders (photo), was supported by only 13.1 percent of voters.

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Coalition without Wilders

Mark Rutte regarded the election results as a victory over populism. "After Brexit and the US elections, the Netherlands said 'stop' the fake nature of the populists," the Dutch prime minister said. Negotiations to form a coalition are ongoing in the country. It is expected that, in addition to the winner of the election, it will include three more parties. Rutte ruled out an alliance with Wilders.

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Next early

On March 26, early parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria - for the third time in the last 5 years. Their winner was the pro-European GERB party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, gaining 32 percent. The pro-Russian Bulgarian Socialist Party received 27 percent of voters. Socialist leader Kornelia Ninova admitted defeat and congratulated her rivals.

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From Prime Minister to President

The winner of the presidential elections in Serbia, held on April 2, was the current Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić. He managed to get 55 percent of the vote. After the announcement of the voting results, thousands of citizens took to the streets of Belgrade. The demonstrators fear that Vucic's victory threatens the country with the establishment of a dictatorship. Serbia has been a candidate for EU membership since 2012.

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President of the Republic

The election of the new president of France was held in two rounds - April 23 and May 7. As sociologists predicted, the leader of the independent movement Forward! Emmanuel Macron and the head of the right-wing populist National Front party Marine Le Pen. In May, Macron won a convincing victory over his rival.

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Early elections in the UK

On June 8, early parliamentary elections were held in the UK. The initiative to hold them in mid-April was made by Prime Minister Theresa May. According to her, the opposition impedes the process of the United Kingdom's exit from the EU. May hoped to win even more seats for the Conservatives in Parliament and strengthen London's position in the Brexit negotiations. But in the end, the Conservatives lost their majority.

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Macron's coalition wins in France

On June 18, the second round of parliamentary elections took place in France. President Emmanuel Macron's coalition has won a landslide victory. The Republic on the March movement, with allies from the centrist Democratic Movement Party, won 331 seats in the National Assembly.

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Election struggle in Albanian

In Albania (an EU candidate country), parliamentary elections are scheduled for June 25. The election campaign here is accompanied by thousands of protests under the flags of the opposition Democratic Party, which accuses the ruling socialists of corruption and intention to manipulate the outcome of the upcoming vote. At the same time, both main political forces of the country are in favor of a pro-European course.

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Merkel's rival

In Germany, representatives of the parties that are part of the current government coalition will compete for the post of chancellor on September 24. According to polls, the Social Democrats after the nomination of the candidate for chancellor Martin Schulz (pictured with Merkel) are quoted below the party of the current head of the German government, Angela Merkel. 53 percent would vote for her now, and Schultz's approval rating is just over 29 percent.

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Not an alternative?

The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party, which was said at the beginning of the year that it could form the third largest faction in the Bundestag, is rapidly losing ground. Its rating, which reached 15 percent last year, fell to 9 percent by mid-2017.

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Change of places of terms in the Czech Republic?

Now the pro-European government of the Czech Republic, headed by the Social Democrats, includes two more parties - the ANO political movement and the Christian Democrats. In the October parliamentary elections, sociologists predict the victory of ANO (about 30%), which will then be able to nominate its own prime minister. This movement does not have a clear ideology, but in the European Parliament it is part of the liberal faction.

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Representative presidents

New presidents of Hungary and Slovenia will also be elected this year. However, both of these EU countries are parliamentary republics, in which the head of state has mainly representative functions. In February, Frank-Walter Steinmeier became the new president of Germany.