{"id":281080,"date":"2026-07-07T16:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=281080"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:21:21","slug":"french-court-upholds-le-pens-conviction-putting-2027-presidential-bid-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/281080\/","title":{"rendered":"French court upholds Le Pen\u2019s conviction, putting 2027 presidential bid at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Paris appeals court has upheld a fraud conviction against the leader of the far-rigth National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, threatening her 2027 bid for the presidency, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The judge sentenced Le Pen to a 15-month ban from office, including one year wearing an electronic tag.<\/p>\n

The first trial last year found Le Pen, along with 24 former European lawmakers, assistants and accountants, as well as the anti-immigration party itself, guilty of operating a system from 2004-2016 to use European Parliament funds to employ RN staff in France.<\/p>\n

The court sentenced Le Pen to a five-year ban from public office and four years in prison, with two suspended.<\/p>\n

Le Pen, meanwhile, rejects the accusations that her party had run a scheme to misuse European Parliament funds, claiming that it had become the target of a “witch hunt.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Paris appeals court has upheld a fraud conviction against the leader of the far-rigth National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, threatening her 2027 bid for the presidency, Euronews writes. The judge sentenced Le Pen to a 15-month ban from office, including one year wearing an electronic tag. The first trial last year found Le […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":281075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281081,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281080\/revisions\/281081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}