perceive the whole lot earlier than an important enchantment trial for the RN candidate | EUROtoday

As was the trial at first occasion, within the fall of 2024, Marine Le Pen’s enchantment trial within the European parliamentary assistants case guarantees to be one of many important judicial highlights of 2026.

In this case, the chief of the National Rally (RN) deputies was sentenced, on March 31, 2025, to a sentence of 5 years of ineligibility, closing the door to the presidential election of 2027. The attainable overturning of this sanction by the courtroom of enchantment represents the primary problem within the hearings which start on Tuesday, January 13, and should proceed till February 12. Les Décoders take inventory of the contours of this new trial.

What can we blame Marine Le Pen for?

The member for Pas-de-Calais, aged 57, was convicted at first occasion, on March 31, 2025, for “embezzlement of public funds” and “complicity in embezzlement of public funds”. On the one hand, she is accused of getting paid by the European Parliament, the place she sat from 2004 to 2017, 4 parliamentary assistants who would the truth is have labored on behalf of her occasion, the National Front (FN, which turned RN in 2018), of which she assumed the presidency between 2011 and 2021.

You have 81.99% of this text left to learn. The relaxation is reserved for subscribers.