A French court banned the leader of France’s conservative nationalist party–Marine Le Pen–from running for public office for the next five years after her embezzlement conviction.?
Le Pen lost the 2022 French presidential election to current President Emmanuel Macron. The sentence, which also includes a partially-suspended four-year prison sentence, disqualifies her from running for president again in 2027.?
The French ruling in some ways echoes an effort by opponents of now-President Donald Trump to ban him from the ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court sided with plaintiffs who insisted Trump didn’t qualify for state’s 2024 ballot because he was in “insurrectionist.” The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the ruling, thus short-circuiting efforts to ban Trump from other state ballots. Trump was never convicted or indicted for…
