The far-right leader was sentenced, at the end of March, to a five-year ban on running for office. She has appealed. Two ...

Crowd estimates at a rally in support of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen in Paris on April 6 range between 7,000 and 15,000 people, not 100,000, as claimed on social media.

France’s National Rally plans to protest against what it has called the “tyranny of judges” even after an appeals court said in a surprise statement late Tuesday that it should be able to rule by ...

Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen, who was convicted last week of embezzling public funds and banned from running for ...

A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years — a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and an earthquake ...

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has denounced as “a democratic scandal” the court ruling that placed a five-year ban on her seeking public office for embezzling European Union funds ...

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

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.

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.

In a speech, Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, cast a judicial decision prohibiting her from running for office as ...

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 ...

The American president cast the French politician’s conviction as an example of far-right persecution, ignoring ample ...