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Posted on 07/07/2026 6:26:27 AM PDT by DFG
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen will be able to run in France’s presidential election next year, though her involvement remained in doubt Tuesday after a Paris appeals court upheld her conviction for misusing European Union funds.
The court shortened her ban on running for elected office, potentially reopening the path for her to run. However it ruled she must wear an electronic ankle tag for a year, making a campaign both logistically and politically difficult.
Le Pen herself appeared to rule out a run if she was forced to wear a tag. “If I’m allowed to be a candidate but am effectively prevented from campaigning freely, then you understand that wouldn’t be possible,” she said in an interview last week.
Le Pen, 57, who has run for president in France thrice, was banned from holding public office for five years in March last year after a court found her guilty of embezzling 1.4 million euros ($1.6 million) in European Parliament money to hire two high-ranking members of her party, then known as the National Front, as parliamentary assistants.
E.U. lawmakers are provided funds to cover expenses and the salaries of parliamentary assistants, but are not allowed to use them for party activities.
Investigators said they later discovered these hires made between 2004 and 2016 were not isolated cases but part of a wider system of “fake jobs.”
Le Pen, who came second to President Emmanuel Macron in 2017 and again in 2022, was handed a four-year jail term, two of which were suspended and hit with a fine of 100,000 euros ($114,355). She was allowed to serve the other two in home detention with an electronic tag.
Her party, was also fined 2 million euros ($2.29 million), half of which was suspended.
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Don’t they mean far right “extremist uber nazi”?
She should wear it proudly to show who these leftists thugs really are.
“Vote for the crook - It’s important!”
Is she? I thought the label was just the obligatory slur from the Has Been Media (see Tagline.).
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen “
Ridiculous. She is not far right she is against open borders that’s it. She is liberal on just about everything else.
Correct. Note they never, ever say Far-Left.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen “
Ridiculous. She is not far right she is against open borders that’s it. She is liberal on just about everything else.
Ankle monitor is redundant. French media will be all over her and always remind their audience of the charges.
Politicians and Criminals is there really any difference anyway ,LOL
So she basically got a ‘political red card’ and is suspended for the next several matches? And I thought US presidential politics was screwed up.
But unlike the UK they have a history of ...
The French establishment has been running lawfare against the Le Pen family for decades.
If I were her, that ankle-tag the centerpiece of my campaign
It would get shown during every campaign stop.
I’m sure that ankle bracelet is so important. Not.
It’s a humiliation ritual.
Le Pen ought to treat than ankle bracelet the way Pres. Trump did his mugshot.
Oh, geez... If I were in here place I’d LEAN INTO THAT SO HARD!
Out on the campaign trail... “Look at the gaudy jewelry your oppressors have made me wear. And are you so naiive that you think they’re not going to do the same to you; that they don’t have similar designs against YOUR freedom, and all that YOU hold dear??”
She could burn the opposition party to a fine, white ash with that rhetoric, and — by God — I so wish she would!
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