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

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 ...

Marine Le Pen is an icon of France's nationalist right: one of the country's best-known and most popular political figures - with her France First, anti-woke, anti-migration agenda.Far-right leaders, ...

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 ...

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

Yvon Castel says he has voted for the far-right National Rally for years, but is less than impressed by the tactics its ...

Beneath the glittering golden dome of Les Invalides, Jordan Bardella was quick to pay tribute to one of his heroes, Napoleon, ...

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.

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 ... scrutinized for legal guidance that ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been barred from running in ... that we thought were reserved for authoritarian regimes," she said. Le Pen's five-year public office ban cannot be suspended ...