French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has denounced the court ruling that placed a five-year ban on her seeking public office for embezzlement ...

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

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

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.

The leader of France 's far-right party called for a peaceful 'mobilisation', after the movement's figurehead Marine Le Pen was banned from running for office following an embezzlement conviction.

The National Rally party leader has described the court ruling that banned her from running for office as a political witch ...

Legal experts say the sentencing of French far-right politician Marine Le Pen shows rule of law in action. But the political ...

France's Marine Le Pen has been sentenced in an EU embezzlement case, barred from office for five years, with global reactions likening it to Trump's legal saga ...

Marine Le Pen, 56, was convicted of creating fake jobs at the EU parliament and taking advantage of expenses to employ assistants actually working for her party.

"The fact that the sentence of ineligibility handed down to Marine Le Pen was provisionally ... the French legal provision that allowed Le Pen's ban to be enforced immediately is an outlier ...

The sentence, part of a conviction for establishing false jobs in the EU parliament on behalf of her National Rally (RN) party, which she adamantly contested, surprised Le Pen, and the court ordered t ...

And Marine Le Pen has been widely portrayed ... The most immediate question – given the slow pace of the legal appeal that Le Pen has vowed to initiate – is whether the RN will seek prompt ...