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.

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

Marine Le Pen has attacked a court’s decision to ban her from standing for election after she was found guilty of embezzling funds from the European parliament.The leader of the far-right National ...

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 ...

F or the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement into a more respectable nationalist party ready to govern. The French ...

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 ...

Marine Le Pen was at the heart of a system to create phony contracts directing millions in EU funding to her inner circle and ...

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

French courts convicted National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen and two dozen other leading ... as well as a five-year election ban. RN Vice President Louis Aliot faces three years’ electoral ...

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s presidential ambitions were dealt a potential death blow after she was convicted of embezzlement by a French court and barred from running in the next election ...

French courts took a dramatic intervention in the country’s next presidential election, banning far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running. She and her National Rally party were found guilty of ...