Convicted criminal Marine Le Pen has tonight announced she will still stand to become President of France next year, just hours after her embezzlement conviction was upheld.
The National Rally (RN) party veteran had been a strong favourite to replace Emmanuel Macron as head of state.
But last year she was found guilty of embezzling the equivalent of more than £1million from the European Parliament.
Today, Michéle Agi, the president of a three-judge bench at the Court of Appeal of Paris, said the verdict ‘was upheld’.
She also handed down a prison sentence of three years, with two suspended, and a fine of €100,000
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