Leading the French far proper for a number of a long time introduced its share of disappointments to Marine Le Pen. Never, nevertheless, had she come so near the precipice. The head of the National Rally (RN) will play out her political life from January 13 to February 12 between the paneled partitions of the primary chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal, chargeable for the case of the alleged fictitious European parliamentary assistants of the National Front (FN, which grew to become RN in 2018). The Pas-de-Calais MP approaches the deadline with the one certainty of 1 ax: the judgment of the three judges – anticipated in June – will determine her means to face within the 2027 presidential election.
As quickly as her extreme sentence was pronounced, on March 31, 2025, for embezzlement of public funds (4 years in jail, two of which had been closed however underneath an digital bracelet, and 5 years of ineligibility with provisional execution, that’s to say speedy), at first occasion, the member of Parliament for Pas-de-Calais stated she was able to exhaust all avenues of attraction to run for the Elysée for a fourth time. Nothing was then an excessive amount of to overthrow a “political decision” and restore a “Rule of law violated”.
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