[furyg3]

If you're caught using steroids before the race, you're banned from running in the race (and may be fined, and may face criminal charges). If you want to appeal that's fine, but you can't run in the race today.

She was caught improperly funneling EU funds to her own party (members), which would give her party an unfair advantage in any current political race.

[tekla]

I'm glad to live in a country has strict rules about being able to run for office that has an obscenely high bar before being taken away.

[eclecticfrank]

Being convicted of a crime is an obscenely high bar.

[tekla]

Good thing convicting a political opponent of a crime has never been used to crush dissidents.

[johnbronnan]

Sorry, are you claiming that the independent judiciary who convicted her of embezzling funds considers her their "political opponent"? And that the sentence they handed down which is laid out by the French legal system is tantamount to "crushing dissidents"?

[rsynnott]

I mean, possibly such 'dissidents' should refrain from doing multi-million euro frauds, in that case. Seems like asking for trouble.