Marine Le Pen has attacked a court’s decision that bans her from standing for election after she was found guilty of embezzling funds from the European parliament. The leader of the far-right ...

By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris Marine Le Pen ... there and worked as party staff. Image Campaign posters for Emmanuel Macron and Ms. Le Pen in France during the presidential election in ...

French National Rally leader Marine Le Pen has been banned from standing at the next election and handed a four-year jail sentence after being found guilty of embezzlement. The 56-year-old stunned ...

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 ...

Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right Rassemblement National party, at the Assemblée Nationale, in Paris, on April 1, 2025. JULIEN MUGUET FOR LE MONDE Two years ahead of France's next ...

Calling the verdict a violation of the rule of law, she said she would appeal it and asked that court proceedings take place before the 2027 campaign. Image: Marine Le Pen spoke to 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 ...

PARIS—A French court convicted Marine Le Pen of misusing European Union funds, banning her from the next presidential election in a ruling that upends the country’s political landscape.

Judge Benedicte de Perthuis said Le Pen ... next election. "This is a seismic political event," political analyst Arnaud Benedetti said. PARIS − French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was ...

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to a five-year ... is likely to bar her from running in France’s next presidential election. Le Pen, who was twice runner-up to ...

Le Pen's best hope of running will rest on the sentence being overturned on appeal before the 2027 election ... "Today it is not only Marine Le Pen who was unjustly condemned.