Marine Le Pen Conviction Upheld, 2027 Bid in Doubt
The court kept her conviction for misusing European Union funds but cut the election ban to 15 months, preserving a possible path to the 2027 race.
- A Paris appeals court cleared the way for Marine Le Pen to run in the 2027 presidential election Tuesday, but paired the decision with a strict monitoring condition that she has previously rejected as a "no-go."
- The court dramatically softened her lower-court ban on holding public office, reducing it from five years to 45 months, with 30 months suspended. Because she has been serving the ban since March 2025, the remaining 15-month active restriction will expire just before the 2027 election.
- However, the judge sentenced Le Pen to a one-year mandatory home confinement with an electronic bracelet, alongside a three-year prison sentence and a €100,000 fine for embezzling European Parliament funds.
- Le Pen has firmly maintained that campaigning for the presidency under house arrest is completely impossible, stating prior to the verdict that she would pull out of the race if forced to wear a monitoring tag because she couldn't freely leave the house to hold evening rallies or meet constituents.
- The verdict leaves the anti-immigration National Rally party facing a massive strategic decision; if Le Pen determines the electronic bracelet makes a viable fourth presidential bid impossible, her 30-year-old protégé and party president, Jordan Bardella, is poised to take her place on the ballot.
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Le Journal de Montreal
Le Journal de QuebecMarine Le Pen soon fixed on his presidential candidacy 2027.
As in the first instance, Marine Le Pen and several other officials of her party were found guilty of embezzlement of public funds in the case of parliamentary assistants of the National Front. The judges reduced her sentence of ineligibility to fifteen months, a sentence she had already served. Technically, she could therefore be a candidate in the presidential election. (Politics).
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Le Pen says she'll run for French presidency next year despite court-ordered monitor
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she'll run for the French presidency next year despite being sentenced Tuesday to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor for embezzlement. The decision by the 57-year-old veteran of three presidential races sets up a fourth campaign like no other: potentially see...
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