Paris – 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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