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Intriguing
verdict that poses gut-wrenching personal dilemma for Le Pen - snap analysis
Jon
Henley
Europe
correspondent
It’s an
intriguing verdict: the court has ruled Marine Le Pen eligible to run in next
year’s presidential elections by in effect reducing her term of inelegibilty
for public office to just 15 months – but at the same time it has ensured it
will be very difficult for her to to do so by ordering her to wear an
electronic bracelet for one year, something she has repeatedly said she will
not do.
It is
understood that several senior party members have tried to persuade her to run
anyway, but – so far at least – she has refused.
It would
obviously be a gut-wrenching personal decision for her to stand aside:
transforming the National Rally from a fringe extremist group to the largest
single party in parliament has been pretty much her life’s work, and this would
have been her fourth tilt at the presidency.
But the
decision may be made easier by the fact that Jordan Bardella, her protege, is
polling even higher than her – and she would be able to act as his closest
adviser on the campaign trail.
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