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

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.

Marine Le Pen vows to fight election ban in scathing attack on court’s ‘politician decision’ after embezzlement conviction - Marine Le Pen says she will appeal against verdict and her five-year disqua ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has denounced as “a democratic scandal” the court ruling that placed a five-year ban on ...

Le Pen was sentenced on Monday to an immediate ban on standing for election for five years, which would make it impossible ...

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

By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris Marine Le Pen ... waive any ban on running for office. If imposed, however, the disqualification would exclude her from the 2027 presidential election in ...

F or the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement ...

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 ...

A French court on Monday threw into severe doubt far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s 2027 bid for president, handing her a five-year ban on running for office after convicting her over a fake jobs scheme ...

The family of Dr Martin Luther King have criticised far-right leader Marine Le Pen for comparing her ban from running in the ...