The second trial opening on Tuesday is set to be decisive for the political future of the far-right leader. Her initial sentence of ineligibility, with immediate effect, barred her from running in the 2027 presidential election.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is back in court on Tuesday to appeal her embezzlement conviction, with the verdict to determine whether she is eligible to run in the 2027…

OP-ED. In the ideological battle that followed the conviction of the president of the far-right Rassemblement National, the very future of French democracy is at stake, writes…