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

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running in elections for five years.

The cases of France’s Marine Le Pen and Romania’s Calin Georgescu have stoked fury among Europe’s right-wing nationalists and ...

A week after Marine Le Pen was found guilty of using European Parliament funds to pay party staff in France, thousands gathered to protest against her ban from running for office.

The far-right French politician was a leading candidate to become the country’s next president, but has now been barred from running for public office for five years. By Amelia Nierenberg and ...

A French court on Monday barred the far-right leader for seeking office for five years, with immediate effect, for ...

France's far-right National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen called a court ruling that bans her from running for office for five years a "political decision" at a rally in Paris on Sunday. "I won't ...

“Every poll shows that Le Pen’s conviction has not dented her party's popularity,” said Gallard. “The RN is seen by ...

With National Rally framing their ex-leader as a political martyr, is French court ruling an own goal for democracy?

A French court found Marine Le Pen guilty on Monday in an embezzlement case, with a sentence that barred her from public office for five years with "immediate effect." ...

France's Marine Le Pen on Sunday denounced the 'witch hunt' against her National Rally party to thousands of supporters at ...

A French appeals court said Tuesday it would examine Marine Le Pen's case within a timeframe that could potentially allow the far-right leader to contest the 2027 presidential election if her ...