Marine Le Pen’s political future at stake with ruling on electoral ban imminent

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen faces a key ruling Tuesday with a Paris appeals court ruling on an EU parliament funds misuse case, which will determine if she can run in the 2027 presidential elections.

Making his foray into politics with the far-right National Rally (RN), his peers answered to Arthur, Charles or François – some of the more traditional names usually associated with the French political class.

If the Paris Court of Appeal upholds Marine Le Pen's five-year ban from public office, the National Rally figurehead's long-held presidential ambitions would effectively be over.

Just a week before a court ruling that could make Bardella his party’s presidential candidate, police raided contractors who worked for the party’s group in the European Parliament before it was dissolved in 2024.