PARIS, July 7 - After months of uncertainty, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen will learn on Tuesday from a Paris appeal court whether an electoral ban for illicit party financing will prevent her running in next year's presidential election. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

PARIS: French far-right chief Marine Le Pen's political future remained uncertain on Tuesday (Jul 7) after a court cleared her to run but wearing an ankle tag, potentially hampering a campaign for next year's presidential elections when her party has its strongest chance yet of winning power.A lower court las

PARIS: French far-right chief Marine Le Pen's political future remained uncertain on Tuesday (Jul 7) after a court cleared her to run but wearing an ankle tag, potentially hampering a campaign for next year's presidential elections when her party has its strongest chance yet of winning power.A lower court las

Born in 1968, Le Pen was just four years old when her father Jean-Marie co-founded the National Front (FN), France's main postwar far-right movement.

Judge upholds far-right leader's embezzlement verdict but lifts ban on holding public office; sentence would still require her to wear electronic bracelet during election campaign

Marine Le Pen cleared to run for President with an ankle tag after a court ruling on her fake jobs case.

French far-right chief Marine Le Pen's political future remained uncertain Tuesday after a court cleared her to run but wearing an ankle tag, potentially hampering a campaign for next year's presidential elections when her party has its strongest chance yet of winning power.

French far-right chief Marine Le Pen's political future remained uncertain Tuesday after a court cleared her to run but wearing an ankle tag, potentially hampering a campaign for next year's presidential elections when her party has its strongest chance yet of winning power.

Le Pen has previously said she would be reluctant to wage a presidential campaign while serving a sentence under electronic monitoring, arguing that it would interfere with campaigning and undermine her standing as a candidate. But she is yet to confirm what she will do.

The court also gave Le Pen a detention sentence, meaning she must serve one year under house arrest wearing an ankle tag.

Conservative French leader Marine Le Pen says she'll run for the presidency next year despite being sentenced Tuesday to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor for embezzlement.

A Paris appeals court cleared the way Tuesday for popular far-right leader Marine Le Pen to possibly run for the French presidency next year but said she must wear an electronic bracelet, which she ha

Marine Le Pen's embezzlement ban was shortened to allow a 2027 presidential run, but she must wear an ankle monitor that could complicate campaigning.

An appeals court ruling technically allows the French far-right leader to run in next year’s election, but she’d have to campaign while under house arrest.

The veteran politician will be her party’s candidate for next year’s presidential election.