I am referring, of course to Marine Le Pen who was cleared by a French appellate court to run for President of France in the next election.
It appears that French voters will have the opportunity to see the front-runner of the Presidential race wearing an ankle monitor.
As Anna Russel would say, "I'm not making this up, you know."
For a long time, Marine Le Pen believed she was untouchable. So certain was she of her political immortality that she had turned it into a worn-out joke: Nothing would ever stop her from running for office, "unless a truck runs over me." But since March 31, 2025, she was no longer laughing.
On that day, a court had set in motion the inexorable countdown of her political career. Convicted of embezzlement, heavily sentenced, and left disqualified from standing in elections, Le Pen caught a glimpse, for the first time, of her political "death." And while the "miracle" she was hoping for from the Paris Court of Appeal did not quite materialize on Tuesday, July 7, she decided to take her resurrection into her own hands.
Convicted again for misappropriation of public funds, Le Pen benefited from greater leniency from the appellate judges – with her election ban reduced to the bare minimum – and confirmed that evening she would be running in the 2027 presidential election. No matter if her new appeal to the highest court is uncertain. Now, any potential setbacks will only serve to reinforce her narrative of a political "sacrifice." On her first campaign poster, celebrating a "renaissance," she poses with her arms outstretched, Christ-like.
More details on the electronic monitoring here.
It's fairly clear that she will make it to the runoff. The only question is how many of Frances polity will support her if her opponent is someone like the left wing Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
I expect that there are quite a lot of potential Franz von Papen's out there.,
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