France's Marine Le Pen, leading right-wing politician, found guilty of embezzlement, barred from elections
France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running in elections for five years.
Marine Le Pen rejects idea of a pardon, French court says appeal coming in 2026
Marine Le Pen, the front-runner to replace French President Emmanuel Macron in 2027, was found guilty of embezzlement by a ...
Le Pen verdict triggers uproar from far right in France and beyond, amid fist pumps in Paris
The thunderclap court ruling barring far-right politician Marine Le Pen from office for five years has reverberated across ...
Opinion
Will the French Court’s decision to bar Marine Le Pen from the presidential election become the largest human rights issue in Europe?
There are huge implications of the French Court’s decision last week of sentencing Marie Le Pen to prison, and thereby preventing her from running for any public office for the next coming five years.
Marine Le Pen verdict fuels debate that Europe’s ‘rule of law’ is throttling the ‘will of the people’
The cases of France’s Marine Le Pen and Romania’s Calin Georgescu have stoked fury among Europe’s right-wing nationalists and ...