The face of France's far-right, Marine Le Pen, was back in court on Tuesday where an appeals judge upheld her 2025 graft conviction, but lessened her sentence.
Le Pen, 57, had been sentenced to a five-year ban from public office last year by a lower court, as well as two years in prison over a fake jobs scam when she was a member of the European Parliament.
The National Rally (RN) leader then immediately launched an appeal.
She told a party rally over the weekend that she was "not afraid" of the coming verdict.
Per Tuesday's ruling, her ban on standing in an election has been shortened to 15 months, and her prison term reduced to three years — two suspended and one with an electronic ankle tag.
