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 ...

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.

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, 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 ...

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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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.

The far-right French politician was a leading candidate to become the country’s next president, but has now been barred from running for public office for five years. By Amelia Nierenberg and ...

PARIS − French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement ... single biggest party in the National Assembly. France's Le Pen convicted of graft, gets five year election ban ...

The American president cast the French politician’s conviction as an example of far-right persecution, ignoring ample evidence against her.