Explainer 525: You can’t keep a Le Pen down
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The episode discusses Marine Le Pen's reduced sentence for embezzlement and its implications for her presidential campaign.
Far-right French firebrand Marine Le Pen’s sentence for embezzlement was reduced this week, allowing her to stand in next year’s presidential election. But will the conviction hinder or help her campaign? Andrew Mueller explains. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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