National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen’s campaign to revive her aspirations to run for president in 2027 got underway Tuesday in a Paris court.
Jan. 13 Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, launched a legal bid Tuesday to clear her name from an embezzlement conviction for misusing European Parliament funds that sabotaged her presidential ambitions.
The 57-year-old daughter of founding father of the French right, the late Jean-Marie Le Pen, was among 10 fellow party members in court Tuesday to appeal their convictions over a fake jobs scheme via new trials expected to last at least a month, with a decision expected sometime this summer.
Le Pen and the others were found guilty in March of diverting more than $3.4 million of EP funds allotted to hire aides for MEPs between 2004 and 2016 to pay people to work on internal RN party matters in France, rather than for the EP itself.
