\u00a9The law of intellectual property is prohibited in any way unlawful use\/appropriation of this article, with heavy civil and criminal penalties for the infringer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Fall of the French Centre-Right<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The scandals that throw the polls at the French Centre-Right began in 2017 when former Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Charles Armand Fillon was close to triumphing in the Presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But revelations about Francois Fillon’s management affairs have shattered his popularity by taking him out of the second round, leaving the field open for incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron, who won the election by throwing the French Centre-Right into the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the EU elections (2019) the French Centre-right won 8.48% controlling only 7 seats in France\u2019s total seats. The fact that the most recognizable member of the French Centre-Right, Nicola Sarkozy, was convicted of illegally funding him for his successful Presidential campaign (2007) by billionaire Lilia Betancourt (L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s main shareholder).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicola Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison, two on parole and the third on the obligation to stay home wearing an electronic tracking bracelet, while the convicted man appealed. But the political damage they have suffered is irreparable because it is formalised by a court order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The relevant state authorities monitored Nicola Sarkozy’s telephone communications in 2014, which revealed that he and his lawyer used a trusted judicial officer to inform behind the scenes the progress of his case in exchange for the promotion of this judicial officer to a senior position in the Principality of Monaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scandals of the French <\/strong>Centre-Right<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Involved, Centre-Right former Prime Minister Edouard Ballanthir is accused of using the sale of three French submarines to Pakistan (1990s) to fund his election campaign in the 1995 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eleven French military personnel were killed in Pakistan’s capital, Karachi, in 2002 after a bombing. Their presence there was due to the operational integration of the three Agosta submarines into the Pakistani Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n it turned out that the bombing was related to the distribution of the \u00abbribes\u00bb for the submarines that France sold to Pakistan. Part of those kickbacks ended up funding Ballandir’s political course, and because some in Pakistan did not get what they were promised (bribes), they planted a bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2011, former French President Jacques Chirac was convicted of financial irregularities during his time as Mayor of Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2020, former Prime Minister Francois Fillon was sentenced to five years in prison for hiring his wife who was paid without any professional activity in his parliamentary office. Francois Fillon appealed, but this conviction was his political grave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other Categories<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, Nicola Sarkozy is accused of oversizing the spending limit in his 2012 election campaign by \u20ac18,5m with a maximum expenditure ceiling of \u20ac22.5m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, Nicola Sarkozy is accused of being funded by Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi with \u20ac50m in 2014 in order to finance his campaign in 2007. Muammar Gaddafi, when Nicola Sarkozy took office, was invited to Paris when, for 35 years, he received an official invitation from a French President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fact that the Italian Centre-Right represented by Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party maintains single-digit electoral percentages is a serious problem, because large member countries cannot make a decisive contribution to the development of a dynamic Centre-right in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s three-year prison sentence for corruption and undue influence demonstrates key problems for the European Centre-Right. 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