Sophie Pedder
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first heard Jul 2026
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Global News Podcast · US strikes Iran after accusing Tehran of targeting shipping · 8 Jul 2026
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I am a candidate for the presidential election.
What makes a real difference is the fact that the court ruled that not only was shortening her sentence, this ban on her running for elected office, but that she had already served that part of the penalty.
And that is what's made the difference for her.
She now can run.
She doesn't have to run, but the decision was in her hands.
And that's, I think, where things shifted for her this afternoon.
What it also did, however, is impose the wearing of the ankle tag.
Now, that is something that is going to be quite unprecedented in France.
I can't think of a single presidential election with a candidate in that situation.
She's going to contest it, as you just said, in the highest court, the Court de Cassation.
The argument she was making on French television this evening is that, you know, given that the court had reduced the sentences, she thought that she had a case to take to the highest court.
So she may think that she can some way, there's some way around that or a way of making that to sort of shortening the time frame for the wearing of it.
She's a populist candidate.
She has already in the past made a sort of victimhood appeal about all of this.
And I think that she will continue to appeal to the general voter who thinks that she's been hard done by the whole court situation.
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