Le Pen presses ahead with 2027 bid, hinting at campaign under ankle monitor
TL;DR
France's Marine Le Pen vows to run in the 2027 presidential election despite an embezzlement conviction, after an appeals court kept the conviction but shortened her ban and signaled possible campaign under electronic monitoring; the move reshapes the far-right race as Bardella looms as RN’s rising star, while legal uncertainties linger about how she can campaign from a criminal sentence and the Court of Cassation may weigh in.
Topics:worldpolitics#2027-presidential-election#embezzlement#france-politics#jordan-bardella#marine-le-pen#politics
- ‘She doesn’t give up that easily’: France’s Le Pen eyes the Elysee Al Jazeera
- Marine Le Pen ‘wants to talk politics’, but can she drown out the legal noise? The Guardian
- Farage and Le Pen make the same defiant pitch: Only the people can judge us CNN
- Opinion polls see France's Le Pen winning 2027 election despite guilty verdict Reuters
- Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she will run for president of France after court lifts ban NBC News
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