A French far-right leader said he will appeal his conviction for assault to France’s Supreme Court. An appeals court last week upheld a conviction of Jean- Marie Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, for assaulting a Socialist Party politician during a campaign rally last year. Le Pen is currently barred from running for office for one year, but he said that his latest appeal will enable him to run in next year’s election for the European Parliament and in France’s presidential elections, scheduled for 2002.
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