"Very good news": Marine Le Pen welcomes a potential court decision

On Tuesday, Marine Le Pen considered that the intention of the justice system to organize an appeal trial, the decision of which would be rendered in the summer of 2026, was "very good news" indicating "the trouble created by the judgement" of five years of immediate ineligibility against him. ...

The editorial of "Liberation" summarizes the main news of the day of Tuesday, April 1.

Following her five-year sentence of ineligibility with immediate application, the leader of the RN MPs welcomed the intention of the justice system to hold an appeal trial with a decision that would be rendered months before the presidential elections of 2027.

The leader of the French extreme right, Marine Le Pen, considered that the advance of the appeal of her conviction for diversion of funds before the summer of 2026, which can allow her to run for president the following year, is "a very good news" that shows "the confusion created by the sentence" of first instance.

Condemned on Monday in the first instance in the case of the assistants of the Euro MPs of the National Rally, the leader of the far right party also announced, in an interview published by Le Parisien, that she wanted to "take over the Constitutional Council by a priority issue of constitutionality (

Decisions on Le Pen's appeal could be made in the summer of 2026 - whichthe Court of Appeal of Paris will consider appeals against the sentence of Marine Le Pen by the summer of 2026. She was sentenced to 4 years in prison and banned from running for election.