The political way forward for Marine Le Pen can be determined from Tuesday January 13: the previous president of the National Rally (RN), sentenced on March 31, 2025 to 4 years in jail, two of which can be closed however beneath an digital bracelet, and to 5 years of ineligibility with provisional – that’s to say instant – execution, can be judged on enchantment till February 12 in Paris for embezzlement of public funds within the case of the European parliamentary assistants of the National Front. The resolution shouldn’t be anticipated earlier than the summer time. For the second, the member for Pas-de-Calais has misplaced her proper to vote and is now not eligible, however case regulation from the Constitutional Council permits her to finish her mandate.
In the occasion of a brand new conviction – and the speculation shouldn’t be inconceivable – Marine Le Pen dangers ten years in jail and won’t be able to run within the 2027 presidential election. If her ineligibility was confirmed, the MP indicated initially of November 2025 that she wouldn’t run “obviously not”with out ready for a choice from the Court of Cassation. Conversely, she repeated that he was “sure and certain” that she would run once more for the presidency of the Republic “if she could be a candidate” and confided in retaining a “tiny hope”.
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