US officials tried to lobby against Marine Le Pen election ban, French judge says
US officials tried to lobby against Marine Le Pen election ban, French judge says
US officials tried to lobby against Marine Le Pen election ban, French judge says
Magali Lafourcade says the two envoys were convinced the far-right leader’s corruption trial had been political
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A French magistrate has said two Trump administration emissaries approached her seeking to lobby against an election ban on the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
Magali Lafourcade, the secretary general of France’s human rights commission (CNCDH), an independent body that advises the government, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) she had reported the content of the meeting to the French foreign ministry immediately, fearing a potential “manipulation of the public debate in France”.