Madame Le Pen’s Path Out of Political Perdition?

An appeals court reportedly says it will try to adjudicate her case in time for the presidential election.

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National Rally leader Marine Le Pen at the National Assembly, January 14, 2025. AP/Thibault Camus, file

Could a reprieve be in the cards for the leader of France’s rightist movement, Marine Le Pen? Two possibilities — which could yet prove illusory — are coming into view after a judge on Monday convicted the head of the National Rally on charges of embezzlement. The conviction raised concerns among critics, including these columns, that the epidemic of the American disease of lawfare was washing up on the shores of La Belle France.

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