PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s political fate is at stake Tuesday when a Paris appeals court is to rule on whether she may be barred to run in the 2027 presidential election.
If not, Jordan Bardella, her 30-year-old protege and president of the National Rally party, would replace her on the ballot.
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Le Pen, 57, has challenged a March 2025 ruling that found her and other members of her National Rally party guilty of misusing European Parliament funds in the hiring of aides from 2004 to 2016. The aides allegedly
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