Fact check: Has Marine Le Pen's appeal against her presidential ban been denied?

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Fact check: Has Marine Le Pen's appeal against her presidential ban been denied?   The far-right leader has vowed to exhaust all legal avenues to overturn her five-year ban from public office. Where does she stand in efforts to appeal her sentence?   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/11/10/fact-check-has-marine-le-pens-appeal-against-her-presidential-ban-been-denied  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Has Marine Le Pen's presidential ban appeal been denied?

00:07Misleading posts circulating on X claim that Marine Le Pen,

00:11leader of France's far-right National Rally Party,

00:14has been blocked from running in the 2027 presidential election for good,

00:19after a court rejected her appeal against her embezzlement conviction.

00:23Back in March, Le Pen was sentenced to a five-year ban in public office,

00:27effective immediately, among other penalties,

00:29after she and several other members of the RN were found guilty

00:33over a European Parliament fake job scheme.

00:36This post on X says that the French are outraged about her alleged appeal rejection

00:40and that her support stands at 37.5%.

00:43It also says that Jordan Bardella will now replace her in the presidential race

00:48before blaming the EU for being behind Le Pen's ban.

00:51However, the claim about the appeal is wrong and requires a bit of legal untangling.

00:55The Council of State, France's highest administrative court,

00:59did reject a challenge to her ban on the 15th of October,

01:02but this isn't the same thing as her appeal against her criminal conviction.

01:06French legal experts told The Cube the challenge targets the decision

01:10to strip Le Pen of her seat as councillor,

01:12a step taken to argue her overall sentence might be unconstitutional.

01:16The Council of State ultimately rejected her argument,

01:19so it's true in a sense that an appeal against her ban has been thrown out.

01:23But it's wrong to suggest that Le Pen's 2027 presidential hopes are now over.

01:28The separate and larger appeal against her criminal conviction is scheduled to begin in January.

01:33If she wins there, then her ban will automatically be lifted.

01:37As for the Post's other claims, yes, Le Pen and the RN are popular in the polls,

01:41putting them and Jordan Bardella between 33% and 37%.

01:46But no, the EU is not behind Le Pen's conviction.

01:49Despite the European Parliament blowing the whistle on the embezzlement scheme,

01:52the case fell entirely under the French judiciary.

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