Outrage is a precious political currency and France's far right has spent this week attempting, furiously and predictably, to capitalise on the perceived injustice of a court's decision to block its ...

The leader of France’s National Rally (RN) party, Marine Le Pen, told supporters she would not give up despite being found guilty of embezzling European Union (EU) funds and banned from running for ...

Marine Le Pen has been a superstar of Europe’s far-right movement until a spectacular court ruling banned her from running for the French presidency in 2027.

In a speech, Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, cast a judicial decision prohibiting her from running for office as ...

After years trying to moderate her party’s image, the far-right leader, convicted of embezzlement, now voices Trump-like ...

PARIS (AP) — A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred ... in the election,” she told the panel of three judges. Le Pen also serves as a lawmaker in France’s National ...

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The judge also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence - of which two years are suspended and the rest served under home detention - and a 100,000 euro fine.

Marine Le Pen, the figurehead of the ascendant far-right political movement in France, was hit with a non-custodial prison sentence and barred from running in elections for five years on Monday as ...

As the largest party in France’s parliament ... for the Le Pen dynasty – first with Jean Marie Le Pen’s passing in January and now Marine’s forced departure from the political stage.

Accused of misusing EU funds, Monday's verdict could determine whether the far-right National Rally leader can run again.

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday vowed to pursue her presidential ambitions after she was found guilty of ...