Le Pen to run for French presidency despite conviction – her protege Jordan Bardella would make a better candidate

By Joseph Downing, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics, Aston University

Marine Le Pen has confirmed she intends to run in next year’s presidential election in France, despite her appeal against a conviction for embezzlement of EU funds being rejected.

A Paris appeals court sentenced the leader of France’s right-wing Rassemblement National (RN) party to three years imprisonment, with two years suspended. She will have to serve one year wearing an electronic tag. But Le Pen confirmed hours after the sentence was handed down that she will still…

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