PARIS: The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday it had launched a preliminary probe into suspicions of illegal financing of far right National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen’s campaign for the 2022 presidential race, which she lost to Emmanuel Macron.
The investigation, which was opened on July 2, follows a 2023 report by the National Commission on Campaign Accounts and Political Financing (CNCCFP), which scrutinizes candidates’ election expenses and funding, the prosecutor’s office said. It will look into allegations of embezzlement, forgery, fraud, and that a candidate on an electoral campaign accepted a loan.
Le Pen and her party have previously denied wrongdoing in connection with campaign financing. The National Rally could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Paris prosecutor opens probe into Le Pen’s 2022 campaign financing
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Paris prosecutor opens probe into Le Pen’s 2022 campaign financing
- Investigation follows a 2023 report by the National Commission on Campaign Accounts and Political Financing
- Marine Le Pen and her party have previously denied wrongdoing in connection with campaign financing
Pope Leo warns of ‘shrinking’ freedom of expression in Western countries
- Pope Leo warns of ‘shrinking’ freedom of expression in Western countries
VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo warned on Friday that freedom of expression is “rapidly shrinking” in Western countries, and urged the right to conscientious objection for people who refuse military service or for doctors who refuse to perform abortions or euthanasia.
“It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking,” the pope said in an address to diplomats accredited to the Vatican.
“A new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it,” said Leo, the first US pope.
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