Le Pen Says She’ll Run in France’s 2027 Presidential Campaign
The appeals court reduced her office ban and prison term, and Le Pen said voters should decide her future as she appeals to France’s highest court.
- Marine Le Pen, National Rally leader, announced on Tuesday via TF1 that she will remain a candidate for France's 2027 presidential election following a Paris court ruling upholding her embezzlement conviction.
- The Paris court reduced her ineligibility to an effective 15-month period—a penalty she has already served—while handing down three years' imprisonment, a €100,000 fine, and 45 months of disqualification from holding office.
- Additionally, The Court upheld convictions for all 11 co-defendants and reduced her electronic monitoring requirement to one year, addressing earlier concerns that the device would restrict her ability to campaign nationally.
- Seeking to clear the record, Marine Le Pen announced she will refer her case to the Court of Cassation, stating, "I want to pursue all available avenues of appeal so that I can defend my innocence."
- Judges prioritized "voters' freedom of choice" when determining the ban, a ruling that effectively clears the path for the National Rally leader's 2027 presidential bid and resolves uncertainty about her political future.
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Marine Le Pen announced that she will be a candidate in the presidential elections in France in 2027, just a few hours after she was found guilty on appeal on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, of embezzling European Union funds.
Following her conviction by an appeals court, France's leading legal national Le Pen has announced that it will file an appeal. She also continues to seek a candidacy for the presidential election next year, she told TV channel TF1.
Marine Le Pen will appeal to the highest court in France the sentence it carries.
A few hours after her sentence on appeal in the case of European parliamentary assistants, the leader of the RN formalized her candidacy for 2027 by announcing her appeal in cassation. At the risk of leading a campaign at the mercy of her legal obligations.
The leader of the National Association will take part in the 2027 presidential elections after filing an appeal to the Supreme Court.
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