Following the convictions of Marine Le Pen and its extremely right -wing party Rassemblement National (RN), the Paris Court of Appeal has received “three professions” for the time being. The court announced this on Tuesday. It will “investigate the case within a period of time that it should make it possible to make a statement in the summer of 2026,” it says.
If those deadlines were obtained, it would mean that the second process would take place at the latest at the latest, and that the statement would therefore be made many months before the French presidential elections of 2027, as various political leaders asked.
The 56-year-old Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement of EU money on Monday. She received four years in prison, two years of which effective under electronic supervision, and a fine of 100,000 euros. Moreover, she is not allowed to stand for election for five years and she is therefore not allowed to participate in the presidential elections of 2027.
The public prosecutor asked for a possible penalty of inaugurationability to be implemented for the time being. This means that the punishment starts from the conviction and is not suspended during the appeal procedure. The court discussed the latter request, so that the appeal only applies to the prison sentence and the fine.