Marine Le Pen announced her candidacy for the French presidency, following an appeals court upholding her graft conviction but reducing her ban from public office. She plans to appeal further, allowing her to campaign without an electronic monitoring device.
Marine Le Pen announced her candidacy for the French presidency, following an appeals court ruling that upheld her graft conviction but reduced her ban from public office, allowing her to run with an electronic monitoring device.
An appeals court upheld Marine Le Pen's 2025 graft conviction for misusing EU funds but reduced her sentence to a 15-month election ban and three years in prison (two suspended, one with an electronic ankle tag). This ruling impacts her potential 2027 presidential bid.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's 2025 graft conviction was upheld on appeal, but her sentence was reduced to a 15-month election ban and a three-year prison term (two suspended, one with ankle tag) for misappropriating EU funds.
Marine Le Pen's 2025 graft conviction for a fake jobs scam as an MEP was upheld by an appeals judge, but her sentence was lessened. She had been banned from public office for five years and received a two-year prison sentence.
