The Graphic Truth: Where corruption is rising, falling

Yesterday, a French appeals court shortened a ban on far-right leader Marine Le Pen seeking public office, effectively allowing her to stand in the 2027 presidential election. Hours after the verdict was announced, Le Pen officially announced her fourth bid for the Elysée Palace, despite judges upholding her embezzlement conviction and sentencing her to a year of house arrest, ankle monitor and all – a condition she had said would preclude her candidacy as recently as last week (Le Pen has vowed to appeal to France’s highest court).

“There is no longer any scenario in which I could not run,” she said on Tuesday evening. “I am a candidate to the presidential election, I will not change my mind.”