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What could happen to Le Pen's conviction before the 2027 presidential election?
The far-right leader was sentenced, at the end of March, to a five-year ban on running for office. She has appealed. Two ...
Le Pen vows to fight conviction in front of supporters but large-scale protests fail to materialize
The leader of France’s National Rally (RN) party, Marine Le Pen, told supporters she would not give up despite being found ...
France's Le Pen convicted of graft, gets five year election ban
Le Pen, the RN and two dozen party figures were accused of diverting more than 4 million Euros ($4.33 million) of European Parliament funds to pay France-based staff. They had argued the money was ...
France's Le Pen convicted of graft, barred from running for president in 2027
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Defiant, Le Pen Tells Supporters ‘I Won’t Give Up’ Despite 5-Year Ban
In a speech, Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, cast a judicial decision prohibiting her from running for office as ...
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Here's a look at the election ban on France's far-right Le Pen and the legal issues
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 ...
France's Le Pen: I'm out of the running for the 2027 race, but will fight on
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Monday that a court's decision to bar her from office for misuse of European funds ruled her out of the 2027 presidential election, adding she had no ...
Le Pen supporters rally in Paris, turning a protest into a populist show of force
Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen, who was convicted last week of embezzling public funds and banned from running for ...
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Le Pen’s conviction in France: Career-ending or fuel for a new far right?
Paris, France – On Sunday, an opinion poll predicted that Marine Le Pen, the longtime leader of the French far right, would secure up to 37 percent of votes in the 2027 presidential election ...
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France's Marine Le Pen, leading right-wing politician, found guilty of embezzlement, barred from elections
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 ...
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Marine Le Pen’s ban polarises France
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 ...
France's Le Pen barred from running for president in 2027 after graft conviction
By Elizabeth Pineau and Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) -French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was banned from running for public office for five years after being convicted on Monday of ...