Tel-Chai Nation: French appeals court will hear Marine Le Pen's case sooner than thought

It looks like there's hopefully good news in the whole Marine Le Pen sentencing debacle, as now, an appeals court will hear her case, following the outrage that came after the previous court barred her from elections, not unlike Jair Bolsonaro's chilling case in Brazil, and another one that took place recently in Romania:

National Rally leader Marine Le Pen’s prospects of standing to become the next president of France in 2027 was given a boost as the Paris Court of Appeal said it will look to decide whether to uphold or scrap the ban on her from elections by next year.

In a press release on Tuesday evening, the Paris Court of Appeal said that it will decide by the “summer of 2026” on Marine Le Pen’s appeal against the ruling this week to ban her from standing in any election for the next five years over a controversial embezzlement conviction over EU funds during her time as a member of the European Parliament.

“The Paris Court of Appeal confirms having received today three appeals filed against the decision rendered on March 31, 2025, by the Paris judicial court in the case of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front. It will examine this file within a time frame which should allow a decision to be rendered in the summer of 2026,” the court said, according to Le Figaro.

Responding to the decision, Le Pen said it was “very good news”. However, she went on to say that she intends to challenge the ruling in other venues as well, including France’s Constitutional Council and the European Court of Human Rights.

“I will use all possible avenues of appeal. I won’t let it happen,” she told Le Parisien.

While other politicians in France have faced similar bans from running for office after being convicted of similar offences, such as former Prime Minister François Fillon, none have been on the scale of Le Pen’s case, given her status as the clear frontrunner to become the country’s next president.