The far-right leader was sentenced, at the end of March, to a five-year ban on running for office. She has appealed. Two ...

Marine Le Pen was at the heart of a system to create phony contracts directing millions in EU funding to her inner circle and ...

The court's decision will make it more difficult for the weak minority government to make the crucial decisions needed to control a ballooning public debt.

Marine Le Pen says she will appeal against verdict and her five-year disqualification from public office ahead of presidential elections ...

Le Pen's ban - after being found guilty of embezzling EU funds - means she would not be able to run in the 2027 French ...

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has denounced as “a democratic scandal” the court ruling that placed a five-year ban on her seeking public office for embezzling European Union funds ...

F or the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement into a more respectable nationalist party ready to govern. The French ...

potentially giving her enough time to contest the election, if her conviction is overturned. Le Pen was greeted by cheers of “Marine présidente” as she told the crowds gathered at Place ...

Le Pen was sentenced on Monday to an immediate ban on standing for election for five years, which would make it impossible for her to run for president in 2027 unless the ban is overturned in an ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen insisted Tuesday that her movement could still win 2027 presidential elections after she ... conviction was a five-year ban -- effective immediately ...

Could the National Rally retaliate in parliament by attempting to bring down the fragile coalition government?

Marine Le Pen has attacked a court’s decision that bans her from standing for election after she was found ... have been eliminated.” While the ban from public office is effective immediately ...