French politician Marine Le Pen and eight other members of her right-wing party were found guilty of embezzling public funds on Monday, and she herself was barred from running for public office ...

Judge Benedicte de Perthuis said Le Pen had been "at the heart" of the scheme. She is now barred from running against President Emmanuel Macron in the next election. "This is a seismic political ...

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 ...

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PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to a five-year ban on running for public office for embezzling EU funds, a major political earthquake. The ruling, which ...

The sentence made the far-right leader ineligible for five years, excluding her from the 2027 election unless she can secure a more favorable outcome on appeal. By Roger Cohen and Aurelien Breeden ...

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 ...

It was a decision eagerly awaited for Marine Le Pen's political future. The Paris Correctional Court handed down its decision on Monday, March 31, in the case of her party's fake assistant jobs at ...

This week, a French court found far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling millions of euros of European Union funds and banned her from running for political office for five years ...

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French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds, in a politically explosive ...