Францын шүүх Марин Ле Пенийн сонгуульд оролцох эрхийг хэвээр үлдээсэн ч түүнд цахим бугуйвч зүүлгэх шийдвэр гаргасан нь улс төрийн үйл ажиллагаанд нь хүндрэл учруулж болзошгүй байна.
Францын шүүх Марин Ле Пенийг Европын парламентын хөрөнгийг зориулалт бусаар ашигласан хэргээр гурван жилийн хорих ял оноосноос хоёр жилийг нь тэнсэж, нэг жилийн хугацаанд цахим бугуйвч зүүлгэх ял оногдууллаа. Тэрээр өмнө нь ийм нөхцөлөөр сонгуулийн сурталчилгаа явуулах боломжгүй гэж мэдэгдэж байсан ч шүүхийн шийдвэрээр тэрээр 2027 оны дөрөвдүгээр сард болох ерөнхийлөгчийн сонгуульд нэр дэвших эрхтэй хэвээр үлдэв.
Түүний өмгөөлөгч Родольф Босселю шүүхийн шийдвэрийг ялын хэмжээг бууруулсан эерэг алхам гэж дүгнэж байгаа ч давж заалдах эсэхээ хараахан шийдээгүй байна. Ле Пен өөрөө улс төрийн ирээдүйнхээ талаарх шийдвэрээ удахгүй олон нийтэд зарлахаар төлөвлөжээ.
Хэрэв Ле Пен нэр дэвшихээс татгалзвал түүний удирддаг “National Rally” (RN) намын ерөнхийлөгч Жордан Барделла нэр дэвших магадлалтай юм. Санал асуулгуудаар тус нам өндөр дэмжлэгтэй байгаа бөгөөд сонгуулийн үр дүн нь Ле Пен эсвэл Барделла нарын хэн нь нэр дэвшихээс ихээхэн хамаарах төлөвтэй байна.
Шүүхээс мөн “National Rally” намд хоёр сая еврогийн торгууль ногдуулсан байна. Уг хэрэг нь 2004-2016 оны хооронд Европын парламентын санхүүжилтийг намын ажилтнуудын цалинд хууль бусаар зарцуулсан гэх “хуурамч ажлын байрны” схемтэй холбоотой юм.
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Marine Le Pen could run in France’s presidential election next year, a court has ruled in a significant boost to her party’s chances of securing power – but the conditions of her conviction mean she may choose not to run.
The far-right leader had sought to overturn the five-year ban from public office and a four-year jail sentence for embezzling funds from the European parliament, handed down by a French court last year.
Today’s court ruled that Le Pen serve a three-year jail term with two years suspended, but she was also told she has to wear an electronic tag for one year – something she previously said would stop her running for president.
“We cannot campaign under these conditions,” she told BFMTV. “You can campaign without going out in the evening to meet your constituents at rallies? That would be another way to prevent me from being a candidate.”
Tuesday’s appeal judgment, under which Le Pen is ineligible to hold public office for 45 months, 30 of which are suspended, means Le Pen will be eligible to stand when voters go to the polls in April 2027, because she has already served most of the 15-month ban, which has been running since last year’s ruling.
Le Pen’s lawyer has said she will reflect on the decision and has not made any final decisions.
“We note a significant sentence reduction,” Rodolphe Bosselut said according to Politico. He said he was “partially” satisfied with the ruling which was a “good start”.
No decision has been made on whether to file an appeal before France’s highest court, the Cour de cassation, he added.
Le Pen is due to give a prime-time TV interview on TF1 at 7pm UK time, in which she may make an announcement on her political future.
With her anti-immigration National Rally party comfortably ahead in the polls, her supporters may hope that the ruling will mean she runs to succeed Emmanuel Macron.
But if she chooses not to, Le Pen, 57, would be replaced by protege Jordan Bardella, 30.
“I’m not scared,” she said this week. “If I can run, I will – as long as I can campaign.”
National Rally (RN)has spent months preparing for two possible futures: one led by Le Pen and another by party president Jordan Bardella.
Bardella has repeatedly said he is preparing to become Le Pen’s prime minister rather than her replacement. Yet the possibility that Le Pen may ultimately decide not to run could propel him into the race.
Polls have consistently shown both figures as strong contenders to reach a presidential runoff. Some recent surveys have even suggested Bardella would outperform Le Pen in the first round.
Judges also sentenced Le Pen’s National Rally party to pay a two million euro fine, one million of which is suspended.
Le Pen was accused of using European parliament funds meant to finance the costs of parliamentary assistants to pay employees working for her own political party.
French investigative news website Mediapart in 2013 reported that she had hired two members of her party, then the National Front, as parliamentary assistants. Investigators found these hires were not isolated but part of a wider system of “fake jobs”.
In 2023, after a seven-year investigation, Le Pen was ordered to stand trial alongside more than two dozen other defendants over the alleged misuse of EU funds – charges she and her party contested.
Le Pen was previously banned from holding public office for five years on 31 March 2025 after being found guilty of embezzling €1.4m (£1.2m) in European parliament funds to pay her party employees between 2004 and 2016 through such a scheme.
