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Marine Le Pen: Potential New Right Leader

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French politician Marine Le Pen is the most famous and potentially the most consequential New Right leader in Europe .

Le Pen was due to be its presidential candidate in two years ’ time, but her candidacy is now in jeopardy following a ruling by a Paris criminal court.

The court’s judgement was the most severe sentence possible to the three -time presidential candidate: an immediate five-year ban on standing for office, four-year prison sentence and a 100,000 fine.

French far-right politician Marine Le Pen was jailed for embezzling EU funds.

But a Paris appeal court has announced that it is willing to hear her case.

If the ban on her candidacy is struck down, she would be able to run in 2027 .

Her party and supporters are preparing to portray Le Pen as a democratic martyr persecuted by an authoritarian French establishment.

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