Paris ¨C French far-right chief Marine Le Pen on Tuesday said she was still standing for president next year, after an appeals court confirmed her embezzlement conviction but paved the way for her to run with a shorter ban from office.
¡°This evening, I am a candidate in the presidential election,¡± she said, ending uncertainty over whether she would run for the top job for the fourth time in elections viewed as her party¡¯s best ever chance to win the presidency.
The Paris appeals court earlier on Tuesday upheld a guilty verdict against the three-time presidential hopeful from the anti-immigration National Rally (RN) over a fake jobs scam at the European Parliament that diverted more than €2.8 million (more than $3 million) in EU funds.
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