This Tuesday, the Paris Court of Appeal sentenced the leader of the French far-right, Marine Le Pen, to a 45-month disqualification sentence, although 30 of them are exempt from compliance unless there is recidivism, which reduces it to 15 firm months and she could technically run in the 2027 presidential elections.
Le Pen was also sentenced to three years in prison, two of which were exempt from compliance, so that she will have to serve one year with an electronic bracelet under conditions to be set by the sentencing judge, as well as a fine of 100,000 euros.
The conditions and deadlines for that year in which he will have to wear the electronic bracelet will be crucial to knowing whether he will present his candidacy for the Elysée, since he had said that he would not campaign if he had to wear that device.
Le Pen should give more clues about that candidacy or whether her dolphin, Jordan Bardella, will replace her in an interview scheduled this afternoon on the country’s most watched television network at the time of most monitoring, at 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. GMT).
Embezzlement of funds that were used to pay party people
The president of the court, when reading the part of the sentence that corresponded to her, stressed that a political leader has to be exemplary in compliance with the rules.
The judges considered her, as well as the other eleven defendants and her party, the National Rally (RN), guilty of the embezzlement of more than 2.8 million euros that the European Parliament allocated to pay parliamentary assistants and which were actually used for employees who worked for the political party.
