Overview
- A Paris appeals court on Tuesday upheld Marine Le Pen’s conviction for misusing European Parliament funds, reduced her ineligibility to 45 months and ordered one year of home detention with electronic monitoring.
- Because part of the earlier ban has already been served the court’s recalculation makes Le Pen technically eligible to stand in the April 2027 presidential ballot.
- Le Pen announced she will run, launched a campaign event in La Flèche and has appealed the appeals-court decision to the Court of Cassation, a step that could delay or change enforcement of the ankle‑tag order.
- Judicial sources say the electronic monitor will include curfews and movement limits that would complicate nationwide campaigning and Le Pen has said she may not run if she must wear the tag.
- The verdict intensifies an internal National Rally debate over whether Le Pen or party president Jordan Bardella should lead the ticket and places the wider ‘fake jobs’ embezzlement case back at the centre of France’s 2027 contest.