Cheers and Boos for Le Pen’s French Campaign Launch After Guilty Verdict
The court’s ruling lets her campaign freely for now, while her challenge to France’s highest court could still affect her sentence.
- 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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Le Pen Launches 2027 Bid After Court Lifts Ban: What to Know
Marine Le Pen has confirmed she will run for the French presidency for the fourth time next year, despite a French court upholding her embezzlement conviction on Tuesday and sentencing her to wear an electronic monitoring device for 12 months. The appeals court ruling cleared the way for the former president of the National Rally party to run by shortening a ruling handed down by a court last year that barred her from seeking public office for f…
France's Le Pen says she'll run for president in 2027
Former French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen announced on Tuesday she will run for president in 2027, after an appeals court shortened her ban on running for office, even as it upheld her conviction for embezzling European Parliamentary funds.
A court of appeal has confirmed the conviction of French right-wing populist Marine Le Pen for embezzlement of EU funds. The ban on public offices has been shortened so that she can take part in the presidential election in 2027. From the three-year prison sentence, two years are suspended for parole. In the remaining year, she would have to wear a shackle. Le Pen wants to go into revision and announced that he wants to run "without a shackle".
The renewed condemnation does not prevent Marine Le Pen from running for the presidency again. Now it's about who can offer her paroli from the middle, comments Marcus Mäckler.
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…
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