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Le Pen's French presidential hopes in jeopardy as election ban upends 2027 race
A French court on Monday convicted
Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years, dealing a hammer blow to the far-right leader's presidential hopes and upending the 2027 race for the Élysée palace Le Pen has vowed to fight the conviction, which she claims was politically motivated French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Monday slammed a political decision and insisted she had not abandoned hope of standing in presidential elections in 2027 after a court handed her a five-year ban on running for office in a political earthquake for France
The verdict – part of a conviction for creating fake jobs at the EU parliament on behalf of her National Rally (RN) party – stunned Le Pen as the judge ordered that the ban come into force with immediate effect If it stands, this would mean she would be unable to launch a fourth campaign to capture the Élysée, where analysts believe she had her best ever chance of becoming president In a febrile international climate, the verdict was condemned by the Kremlin, billionaire tycoon Elon Musk and hard-right European politicians ranging from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Geert Wilders of the Netherlands. US President Donald Trump's administration also weighed in with State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce saying: "exclusion of people from the political process is particularly concerning given the aggressive and corrupt lawfare waged against President Trump here in the United States Le Pen was also given a four-year prison term by the Paris court but will not go to jail, with two years of the term suspended and the other two to be served outside jail with an electronic tag She was convicted over a scheme to take advantage of European Parliament expenses to employ assistants who were actually working for her far-right party in France
The court found that Le Pen had siphoned millions of euros in public funds while serving in the European Parliament, paying party staff with money intended for EU assistants.
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Le Pen, 56, said she would appeal the political decision", and vowed that in "no way" would she retire from political life, in a combative interview with the commercial French television network TF1 I'm not going to let myself be eliminated like this. I'm going to pursue whatever legal avenues I can There is a small path It's certainly narrow, but it exists," she said She said that the appeal would be lodged "as quickly as possible" and said that the judiciary should "get a move on" so it is heard in time. #news #viranews #usa #trend #trending #usatoday

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