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Mountainguy

(2,145 posts)

6. She will, but

Reply to moondust (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:31 PM

Mar 2025

The bar from running will remain in place during the appeal. The timeframe of an appeal make it highly unlikely that she could be reinstated in time to mount a run.

Good quote from one article I saw from BBC.

The law had in fact recently been toughened – by the very politicians who were now complaining about its application – to make the penalty for misuse of public funds very severe indeed. Well, said the judge in so many words, now let politicians suck up their own medicine.