Le Pen files appeal to the Court of Cassation — what that means for her 2027 presidential ambitions

Paris - 08.07.2026: The leader of the Rassemblement national parliamentary group, Marine Le Pen, announced immediately after the conviction by the Cour d'appel de Paris on 7 July 2026 that she would file a pourvoi en cassation (appeal to the Court of Cassation). The appeals chamber upheld several convictions in the case concerning alleged misuse of European Parliament funds by former FN/RN staff, but imposed a different composition of penalties than the first-instance court.The legal core of the political debate concerns the question of exécution provisoire: At first instance Le ...