Paris ¨C After months of uncertainty, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen will learn on Tuesday from a Paris appeal court whether an electoral ban for illicit party financing will prevent her running in next year¡¯s presidential election.
Le Pen¡¯s presidential hopes have been in ?limbo since March 2025, when she received a five-year ban from public office for embezzling more than €4 million ($4.6 million) ?from the ?European Parliament.
She denies guilt and has appealed. If the court upholds the ban, effectively barring ?the 57-year-old from making her fourth tilt at the presidency, her 30-year-old protege Jordan Bardella will become the candidate for her anti-immigrant National Rally (RN) party, the frontrunner in surveys.
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