Cheers and Boos for Le Pen’s French Campaign Launch After Guilty Verdict
The ruling keeps her conviction in place but ends the immediate election ban, allowing her to campaign while a final appeal is pending.
- On Wednesday, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen launched her presidential campaign in La Fleche, western France, a day after an appeals court enabled her to run.
- The Paris appeals court on Tuesday shortened Le Pen's ban on running for office but upheld her March 2025 conviction for misusing European Parliament funds to pay party staff.
- Accompanied by 30-year-old Jordan Bardella, Le Pen faced mixed reactions in the Loire Valley town; some chanted "Marine, President!" while others jeered "Give the money back!"
- Le Pen announced that if she reaches the Elysee Palace, Bardella will serve as her prime minister, promising "the revival of education" and "the revival of our sovereignty."
- BVA pollsters expect Le Pen to reach the presidential election runoff despite her guilty verdict, though the conviction may challenge her voter base expansion efforts.
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What If the Next French President Had to Wear an Ankle Monitor?
Marine Le Pen during the news broadcast announcing her candidacy on July 7, 2026. (Photo by Christian Hartmann / Pool / AFP via Getty Images.)Yesterday, a Paris appeals court upheld Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzling European Parliament funds. Le Pen’s party, the Rassemblement National (RN), had embezzled €2.8 million by using a fund designated for parliamentary assistants to pay party staff between 2004 and 2016.In an unexpected twist, t…
Europe’s most consequential vote since Brexit starts now
Yesterday, a French appeals court shortened a ban on far-right leader Marine Le Pen seeking public office, effectively allowing her to stand in the 2027 presidential election. Hours after the verdict was announced, Le Pen officially announced her fourth bid for the Elysée Palace, despite judges upholding her embezzlement conviction and sentencing her to a year of house arrest, ankle monitor and all – a condition she had said would preclude her c…
The ultra-right leader has preferred to expose herself to another possible negative sentence and to the imposition of an electronic anklet in the middle of the electoral process rather than yielding the witness to her dolphin, Jordan Bardella
Right after the verdict against her, the French legal nationalist Marine Le Pen started the campaign. Their supporters obviously have no problem with their criminal conviction. By Cai Rienäcker.
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