The European Court of Human Rights shut down a request from French populist leader Marine Le Pen to overide the “political death sentence” ban against her running for office for the next five years.
The Strasbourg-based court, which can be appealed to over judicial rulings within signatory states, rejected the request from former French presidential candidate and current National Assembly deputy Marine Le Pen to suspend the prohibition of her standing for office, which Paris magistrates mandated must remain in place even during the appeal process.
While she still plans to challenge the merits of the ruling at the ECHR and also has filed for…
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