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

It was a good day for French democracy but the far-right may still win the 2027 presidential election, writes Cole Stangler.

After years trying to moderate her party’s image, the far-right leader, convicted of embezzlement, now voices Trump-like ...

Far-right leader Le Pen might struggle to mobilize support by portraying her conviction as the result of an establishment-led witch hunt, experts said.

After the far-right leader was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running for office, her supporters cried foul. Was justice served or politicized?

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 ...

PARIS — A French court on Monday barred Marine Le Pen from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect, for embezzlement — a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s ...

“It’s my political death they want,” far-right leader Marine Le Pen claimed in November – a prediction that proved prescient, though few took it seriously at the time. The three-time ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The National Rally’s Marine Le Pen on Friday filed an appeal against a Paris court that found her guilty of misappropriating ...