{"id":57056,"date":"2026-02-26T05:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/frances-le-pen-says-she-wont-run-in-2027-if-appeal-court-orders-her-to-wear-an-electronic-bracelet\/26\/02\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:28:28","slug":"frances-le-pen-says-she-wont-run-in-2027-if-appeal-court-orders-her-to-wear-an-electronic-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/frances-le-pen-says-she-wont-run-in-2027-if-appeal-court-orders-her-to-wear-an-electronic-bracelet\/26\/02\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s Le Pen says she won&#8217;t run in 2027 if appeal court orders her to wear an electronic bracelet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PARIS (AP) \u2014 France&#8217;s far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she won&#8217;t run for president next year <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-marine-le-pen-eu-funds-trial-appeal-8e9065c9e739c66cb6966039f61d0e04\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:if a Paris appeals court orders her to wear;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">if a Paris appeals court orders her to wear<\/a> an electronic bracelet over alleged misuse of European Union funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Le Pen said she hopes the appeals court clears her in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/marine-le-pen-trial-presidential-election-france-7648655db3ec0db4cd8f70024382a3ff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:key verdict set for July 7;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">key verdict set for July 7<\/a> \u2014 a ruling that may derail her presidential ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI know very well that the decision regarding this candidacy isn\u2019t mine to make,\u201d she said Wednesday evening on news broadcaster BFM TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Le Pen, 57, is challenging a March 2025 verdict that found her and other members of her National Rally party guilty of misusing EU Parliament funds in the hiring of aides from 2004 to 2016 who allegedly worked for the party instead of doing parliamentary tasks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If convicted, she could be sentenced to a ban from elected office or she will have to wear an electronic tag \u2014 or both, among other options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s in the hands of three judges who will decide whether or not the millions of French people who want to vote for me will be able to do so,\u201d Le Pen said, following the five-week appeal trial that ended earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYou can imagine that if the (appeals) court follows the lower court\u2019s ruling that sentenced me to wear an electronic tag, I won\u2019t be able to campaign,\u201d Le Pen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Le Pen denies accusations that she was at the center of a fraudulent system meant to siphon off EU funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If allowed to run, she is widely seen as a top contender to succeed centrist President Emmanuel Macron in the 2027 election. If not, she has said her 30-year-old protege Jordan Bardella would run instead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/frances-le-pen-says-she-100421779.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AP) &mdash; France&rsquo;s far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she won&rsquo;t run for president next year if a Paris appeals court<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/frances-le-pen-says-she-wont-run-in-2027-if-appeal-court-orders-her-to-wear-an-electronic-bracelet\/26\/02\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/47XWTu13P77ex4yEipy7Ww--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ap.org\/238c3654eb800d2cc85e25c8f5b9c2da","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}