After the Paris Court of Appeal removed the threat of her being ineligible for public office, far-right leader Marine Le Pen went on television news within hours to declare that she would stand in the 2027 presidential election. As Mediapart's Fabrice Arfi notes in this op-ed article, the fact that a senior politician in France has been found guilty twice over in a case involving the misappropriation of public funds is evidently no longer enough to disqualify them. There is a well-known (…)

Libérée de l'inéligibilité par la cour d'appel de Paris, la cheffe de file de l'extrême droite a déclaré sur TF1 être candidate à l'élection présidentielle. En France, la double reconnaissance de culpabilité d'une responsable politique dans une affaire de détournement de fonds publics n'est donc pas synonyme de disqualification. Il y a, en matière de sécurité routière, un phénomène bien connu : l'effet tunnel. Il définit un rétrécissement du champ de la perception en situation de stress, (…)

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has announced she will stand as a candidate in France's presidential election in 2027. Her decision came after the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed her conviction for misappropriating public funds from the European Parliament. In its sentencing the court - which referred to “voters' freedom of choice” - had already left the way open for Le Pen to stand as the Rassemblement National candidate for the election when it reduced a ban on holding public office (…)