On July 7, 2026, a Paris appeals court upheld Marine Le Pen's conviction for misusing European Parliament funds to pay Rassemblement National staff and imposed a three-year prison sentence with two years suspended plus one year of electronic monitoring. The same ruling shortened her ban on holding elected office, allowing her to contest the 2027 presidential election. Le Pen stated in a TF1 interview the same day that she intends to run and will appeal the verdict.