The Rise and Pause of Jordan Bardella

Summary

The political landscape in France changed this week after the appeal court judges upheld the guilty verdict against Marine Le Pen for misappropriating European Parliament funds, but reduced the five-year ban on her standing for public office to fifteen months. Time already served, said the Paris court. With Marine Le Pen no longer the presidential hopeful for the single most popular party in France right now, the far-right National Rally.