US EditionLe Pen's Political Fate Hangs in the Balance as French Appeal Begins
Marine Le Pen contests a conviction for misusing over €4 million in EU funds and a five-year ban that blocks her 2027 presidential bid, with a ruling due before summer.
- Marine Le Pen opens her appeal in Paris this week on Jan 12, which will determine if she can run in the 2027 presidential election; the ruling is expected before summer.
- The conviction stems from courts finding EU funds used to pay party staff, with Marine Le Pen found guilty last year of misappropriating more than 4 million euros, triggering her immediate ban.
- Le Pen and co-defendants formally lodged appeals, while Rodolphe Bosselut and Sandra Chirac Kollarik declined comment; the European Parliament won more than 3 million euro in damages and the RN must pay a 2 million euro fine, half suspended, with most French public supporting the ruling.
- A ruling expected before the summer will decide if Marine Le Pen can run in the 2027 presidential contest; if barred, RN party president Jordan Bardella would replace her, boosted by her legal troubles.
- U.S. officials' past internal talks about sanctioning French judges last year were denied by Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers on Thursday, while Maud Bregeon warned against U.S. meddling after Peimane Ghaleh-Marzban condemned interference.
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Marine Le Pen is probably not allowed to compete in 2027. Jordan Bardella takes advantage of the hour. But France's presidency remains unpredictable.
Born in politics, the former president of the National Rally is judged on appeal from Tuesday in the case of European parliamentary assistants. A confirmation of his conviction to five years of ineligibility would call into question an entire life oriented towards the supreme election.
With eleven other defendants, Marine Le Pen is tried on appeal from this Tuesday 13 January and until 12 February in the case of European assistants. Result of the races by the summer with, at the key, the risk of a confirmed ineligibility before the next presidential.
Marine Le Pen has to answer to the court again, and the verdict could decide the candidate question for the presidential election in France in 2027.
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