[Georgelemental]

Far-left politician and fierce Le Pen critic Jean-Luc Mélenchon condemned the decision: https://twitter.com/JLMelenchon/status/1906673335796146412

(His party is under investigation for the same crime. The Prime Minister’s party was also investigated, got off with a simple fine)

[simgt]

It's hardly a condemnation... They reiterated that they consider the accusations to be very serious, and are not casting doubt or whether the decision is unjust. They do emit doubts about the timing of it, but for political gains.

Mélenchon's strategy has been for a while to get voters from both the ghettos and from Le Pen's pool of supposedly unhappy but not racist voters. That's again what they're doing here: painting themselves as more respectable [0] than the far right while shitting on Macron / the current establishment.

[0] As opposed to the far right, their ranks aren't filled with people who have been convicted for antisemitism, and the sheer amount of fraud cases in there also speaks for itself...

[mmooss]

> They do emit doubts about the timing of it

What's wrong with the timing? Isn't the election in 2027?

[StopDisinfo910]

> The Prime Minister’s party was also investigated, got off with a simple fine

Untrue. Seven people were condemned to jail time and made ineligible in the MoDem trial.