Paris Appeals Court to Rule on Marine Le Pen's 2027 Eligibility
The ruling eases her ban from office and keeps open a path to the 2027 presidential race, though prosecutors may still seek review.
- The Paris Court is set to rule on Tuesday in Marine Le Pen's embezzlement case, a decision that could determine whether the National Rally leader can stand in next year's presidential election.
- Prosecutors accused Marine Le Pen of heading a system meant to siphon off European Parliament funds to benefit her party, leading to a March 2025 conviction and a five-year ban on holding elected office.
- The state requested one year imprisonment with electronic monitoring and five years of ineligibility, while Le Pen's defense argued that campaign restrictions would prevent her from mounting a proper presidential bid.
- Should the Court block Le Pen, National Rally officials expect 30-year-old Jordan Bardella to replace her as presidential candidate, potentially reshaping the race to succeed President Emmanuel Macron.
- Legal uncertainty persists because even a favorable ruling could face appeals to the Cour de Cassation, potentially re-imposing restrictions before the April 2027 presidential election.
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Following this week's appeal, the way is open for Marine Le Pen to run in the presidential elections again. In the ‘model city’ of Hénin-Beaumont, she wants...
Thirty-nine minutes. This is the time it took the Paris Court of Appeal to reach its decision in the case of the embezzlement of 2.8 million euros of European funds by officials of the National Rally.
Marine Le Pen’s comeback – European Council on Foreign Relations
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Célia Belin, head of ECFR’s Paris office and senior policy fellow, and Jeremy Cliffe, ECFR’s editorial director and senior policy fellow, to discuss Marine Le Pen’s decision to run in France’s 2027 presidential election. After a Paris appeal court ruling rescinded her ban from holding public office, Le Pen has reasserted leadership of the far-right National Rally (RN) and sidelined Jordan Bardella, who was widely…
While she was sentenced by the Court of Appeal in the case of the European Parliamentary Assistants of the RN, Marine Le Pen announced her appeal in cassation and her candidacy for the presidential office. The consequences...
The leader of the French extreme right, Marine Le Pen, has assured that she will stand as a candidate for the presidential election of 2027, despite the sentence on appeal that obliges her to serve one year of electronic surveillance by means of a bracelet.A Paris appeals court found her guilty of embezzlement and issued, as part of the sentence, that she complied with that control measure.In France, electronic surveillance devices are a regular…
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