Sophie Pedder
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The Intelligence from The Economist · Marine warfare: Le Pen runs for president · 8 Jul 2026
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soir,
Le Pen's decision to run ends fifteen months of uncertainty for her party, the National Rally.
our Paris bureau chief.
It sets France up for a very unusual election campaign because the candidate has now been convicted twice in the first and second instances, although she's appealing.
A lot of twists and turns in the day, but at least now the campaign proper can begin.
Yesterday the Court of Appeal in Paris upheld her conviction.
It handed her a three year jail sentence.
Two of those are suspended and one is to be served with an electronic ankle tag.
But crucially for Le Pen, and this is what really made the difference, is that the court shortened her ban on running for office and ruled that she'd already served the ineligibility penalty.
So that freed her to run.
Le Pen said last night that the ban had posed an enormous democratic problem.
As she said it was now up to the people to decide.
She continues to claim she's innocent and she has said that she will now take her appeal to the highest court, the Court de Cassation.
It's an extraordinary story.
It's the story of a family.
Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founded the National Front, as it was known then in the nineteen seventies.
He stood in elections from nineteen seventy-four up till two thousand and two.
Only one he didn't stand in.
So you've got over half a century of a member of the Le Pen family standing in French presidential elections.
There's no other
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