The far-right leader was sentenced, at the end of March, to a five-year ban on running for office. She has appealed. Two years ahead of the presidential election, many questions remain regarding the ...

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." ...

Before Donald Trump’s politically driven hate campaign against undocumented immigrants, France was forced to deal with its own right-wing populist firebrand: Jean-Marie Le Pen. Le Pen ...

MARINE Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzlement and banned from running for office – crushing her ambition to become the ...

After being found guilty of graft, Le Pen’s bid to lead France has been dealt a blow. Some will see her as a martyr.

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

Jean-Marie Le Pen was deemed unfit to testify and eventually exempted from prosecution on health grounds. He was born June 20, 1928, in the Brittany village of Trinite-Sur-Mer. His father later ...

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.

For Le Pen, the worst-case scenario materialized. The 56-year-old daughter of the late far-right totemic figure Jean-Marie Le Pen was sentenced to two years under house arrest while wearing an ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen insisted Tuesday that her movement could still win 2027 presidential elections after ...

Ms. Le Pen, 56, became the face of France’s far right after taking over the party in 2011 from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. Ms. Le Pen has sought to detoxify the political movement he built by ...