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 ...

France's far-right National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen called a ... wound to millions of patriotic French people". He ...

French politician Marine Le Pen and eight ... millions and millions of French people would see themselves deprived of their candidate in the election," Le Pen told the court prior to her sentencing.

French National Rally leader Marine Le Pen has been found ... to ease its strained finances, allegations Le Pen denies. But playing on people's day-to-day concerns about immigration and the ...

France's Marine Le Pen on Sunday denounced the 'witch hunt' against her National Rally party to thousands of supporters at ...

A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years — a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and an earthquake ...

This week, a French court found far-right figurehead Marine Le ... rather than people,” said political scientist Yascha Mounk, a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Le Pen was convicted ...

"People who are afraid of the judgment of the voters are often reassured by the judgment of the courts," he said. "In Paris, they have condemned Marine Le Pen and would like to exclude her from ...

“This is bigger than Marine Le Pen,” said Green Party leader Marine Tondelier. “It’s about defending the rule of law from people who think justice is optional.” Le Pen was the runner-up ...

A French court on Monday barred Marine Le Pen from seeking ... the court also convicted 12 other people who served as parliamentary aides for Le Pen and what is now the National Rally party ...