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France’s far-right National Rally conceded the extent of the damage caused by a court ruling barring its leader, Marine Le Pen, from running for election.
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Le Pen was banned from running in the 2027 French presidential election after being convicted of embezzlement on Monday.
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Le Pen's bid to become France's next president in 2027 were dealt a dramatic blow on Monday, when judges said she had been at the heart of an operation which saw the embezzlement
Across France, National Rally voters are wondering who they will vote for in the 2027 elections, as party leader Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for office. For some, co-party leader Jordan Bardella is the ideal plan B, but for others, not so much. Solange Mougin reports, together with France 2 J. Cholin.
PARIS (AP) — For years, Marine Le Pen stood at the gates of power — poised, relentless and rising. She stripped the French far right of its old symbols, sanded down its roughest edges and built in its place a sleek, disciplined machine with the single goal of winning the country’s presidency.
France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running in elections for five years.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to a five-year ban on running for public office for embezzling EU funds in a major political earthquake.
Le Pen is barrred from running for public office for five years, with court also handing the far-right leader a four-year prison sentence, with two years suspended and two years’ home detention, and a €100,000 fine.
Marine Le Pen on Monday was found guilty of misappropriating EU funds in an historic trial that could halt her future presidential election hopes.
Marine Le Pen described herself as a fighter after she was banned from running for president in France’s 2027 race. For generations that question was unthinkable as one Le Pen, firebrand Jean-Marie, handed the reins of France’s nationalist party to another, his daughter Marine.
Le Pen, the National Rally and two dozen party figures were accused of diverting more than 4 million euros ($4.33 million) of European Parliament funds to