Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will be granted early release from jail, three weeks into a five-year prison term for taking part in a criminal conspiracy.
He will be subject to strict judicial supervision and barred from leaving France.
On 21 October the former centre-right president, 70, was sentenced to five years for conspiring to fund his 2007 election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
His lawyers immediately filed a request seeking his release, pending an appeal trial next March.
Sarkozy could be freed from La Santé prison as early as Monday evening.
