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'Decision time' for far right National Rally as ruling clears Le Pen's way for election run

'Decision time' for far right National Rally as ruling clears Le Pen's way for election run
France 24 Tuesday 07 July 2026, 13:13 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. 'Decision time' for far right National Rally as ruling clears Le Pen's way for election run France Issued on: Modified: Share Will Marine Le Pen leader be running in the 2027 presidential election? Or will she step back and let her popular 30-year-old protégé Jordan Bardella run instead? That is the question the party will have to answer following the appeal court's decision to bar Le Pen for office for 15 months, which could in theory allow her to run - although with an electronic tag, which she has already said would be a no-go. FRANCE 24's Marc Perelman and Luke Shrago tell us more.
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