A Paris appeals court will soon decide if Marine Le Pen is still allowed to run in the 2027 presidential election after she was convicted of misusing public funds.

巴黎上訴法院將於近期決定，瑪麗娜·勒潘在被判定挪用公款後，是否仍獲 phép 參加 2027 年的總統大選。

The legal case began after a March 2025 ruling by the Paris Criminal Court. The court found Le Pen and other National Rally (NR) officials guilty of using European Parliament funds for party work instead of official legislative duties between 2004 and 2016. As a result, she received a four-year prison sentence—including two years that cannot be avoided—a 100,000-euro fine, and a five-year ban on holding public office. Consequently, if the appeals court confirms this ban, Le Pen will be unable to run in 2027, which means Jordan Bardella, the current NR president, might have to be nominated instead.

這起法律案件始於 2025 年 3 月巴黎刑事法院的一項裁決。法院發現勒潘及其他國民聯盟 (NR) 官員在 2004 年至 2016 年間，將歐洲議會資金用於黨務而非官方立法職責，判定其有罪。結果，她被判處四年監禁（其中兩年為強制執行）、10 萬歐元罰金，以及五年禁止擔任公職。因此，若上訴法院維持此禁令，勒潘將無法參加 2027 年大選，這意味著現任 NR 主席喬丹·巴德拉可能必須被提名替代。

Over the years, Le Pen has worked hard to make far-right ideas more acceptable to the general public. After taking over the National Front (NF) from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, she started a policy to make the party seem less extreme. For example, she removed her father from the party in 2015 after he made controversial comments about the Holocaust and renamed the party the National Rally. Furthermore, she changed the party's goals by stopping the plan to leave the European Union (Frexit) and focusing instead on national identity.

多年來，勒潘致力於讓極右翼思想更容易被大眾接受。在從父親讓-馬麗·勒潘手中接管國民陣線 (NF) 後，她開始推行政策使該黨顯得不那麼激進。例如，她在 2015 年其父對大屠殺發表爭議言論後將其除名，並將黨名更名為國民聯盟。此外，她改變了黨的目標，停止了退出歐盟 (Frexit) 的計劃，轉而關注國家認同。

These changes have led to significant success in elections. Le Pen reached the final round of the presidential elections twice, and in 2022, she won 41.45% of the vote in the second round. Meanwhile, the NR has grown its presence in parliament, electing 89 MPs in 2022 and 143 in 2024. Because of this growth, the NR is now a powerful opposition force that can block government policies, although Le Pen remains the symbolic leader of the party even after handing formal leadership to Bardella in 2021.

這些改變使其在選舉中取得了顯著成功。勒潘兩次進入總統大選的最終輪，並在 2022 年第二輪投票中獲得 41.45% 的支持率。同時，NR 在議會中的影響力不斷擴大，2022 年選出 89 名議員，2024 年則選出 143 名。由於這種成長，NR 現在是一個強大的反對力量，能夠阻撓政府政策，儘管勒潘在 2021 年將正式領導權移交給巴德拉後，仍是該黨的象徵性領袖。

Ultimately, the future of Le Pen's political career depends on whether the appeals court decides she is eligible to hold public office.

最終，勒潘政治生涯的未來取決於上訴法院是否判定她具備擔任公職的資格。