France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running in elections for five years.

It was a good day for French democracy but the far-right may still win the 2027 presidential election, writes Cole Stangler.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives as she attends at the French far-right party national rally near the parliament ...

After the far-right leader was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running for office, her supporters cried foul. Was justice served or politicized?

A French court on Monday barred the far-right leader for seeking office for five years, with immediate effect, for ...

With National Rally framing their ex-leader as a political martyr, is French court ruling an own goal for democracy?

France's far-right National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen called a court ruling that bans her from running for office for five years a "political decision" at a rally in Paris on Sunday. "I won't ...

French politician Marine Le Pen and eight other members of her right-wing party were found guilty of embezzling public funds on Monday, and she herself was barred from running for public office.

B ETWEEN 2004 and 2016, Marine Le Pen diverted European Union funds to pay her party’s political staff, falsely claiming that they were working as assistants to its deputies in the European Parliament ...

“It’s my political death they want,” far-right leader Marine Le Pen claimed in November – a prediction that proved prescient, though few took it seriously at the time. The three-time ...

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She was found guilty of misappropriating EU funds. The sentence will stop her running for president in 2027 unless she successfully appeals.