Marine Le Pen: Presidential bid in doubt as court upholds fraud conviction

According to France 24, a Paris appeals court has upheld Marine Le Pen's fraud conviction, dealing a blow to the far-right leader's presidential ambitions. The court handed down a three-year sentence, but with two years suspended and the remaining year to be served wearing an electronic ankle monitor. The ruling leaves Le Pen technically eligible to run in France's twenty twenty-seven presidential election, but only while wearing the electronic bracelet, a condition she has flatly rejected.

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