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French Far-Right Leader Marine Le Pen Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Embezzlement and Five-Year Ban on Holding Office, Ruling Out 2027 Presidential Run
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader who ran for president three times, has been barred from running for office for the next five years.
Marine Le Pen, the well-known French far-right leader who ran for president three times and faced off Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the 2022 presidential election with an unprecedented score for her Rassemblement National (National Rally) party, has been barred from running for office for the next five years by a French criminal court on Monday. In his verdict, the criminal court argued that Le Pen played a ‘central role’ in the alleged embezzlement scheme and said it had ‘taken into consideration, in addition to the risk of recidivism, the major disturbance to public order, in this case the fact that a person already convicted at first instance is a candidate in the presidential election,” according to Le Monde. With Le Pen ousted from potential candidates in the next presidential election, Jordan Bardella, the popular 28-year-old president of the National Rally party who led the European elections in 2024, is expected to build on the momentum that the far right has experienced in recent years.
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