The decision of a French court to ban far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running in the 2027 presidential election will deepen political chaos in a country that already contends with a hung parliament and an unpopular president, Reuters reported.

And it will make it more difficult for the weak minority government led by Prime Minister François Bayrou to make the crucial decisions needed to control a ballooning public debt.

The leader of right-wing party Rassemblement National (RN) was handed on Monday a four-year prison sentence in her and her party’s trial for embezzlement, along with an interdiction to run for public office for five years.

The court found that when she was a member of the European Parliament, Le Pen and others set up a system of fake job contracts that allowed them to siphon off more than 4 million euros of European Parliament money to the RN. Le Pen is appealing the verdict, according to Reuters.