French far right leader Marine Le Pen may have decided to let Prime Minister Francois Bayrou survive this time round, but his ...

French far-right MEP Marion Marechal is set to face trial in September over claims she falsely accused an association that runs a private Muslim school of links to the Muslim Brotherhood.

A man coming from the Loiret region waves a French flag giving his support to French President of Rassemblement National parliamentary group Marine Le ... (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP) French ...

Marine Le Pen, with her father Jean-Marie le Pen, left, in Nanterre, France, in May 2010. Credit... Samuel Bollendorff for The New York Times “Trump’s view is that judges are used to block a ...

Le Pen’s more combative turn breaks with her long-held strategy of seeking to “detoxify” the movement her father Jean-Marie Le Pen started more than 50 years ago in order to overcome its ...

She notably expelled her father Jean-Marie Le Pen from the movement that he founded more than 50 years ago – the Front National – to advocate for a hard line on immigration.

A French court on Monday sentenced far-right leader Marine Le Pen to a five-year ban on running for office with immediate effect, throwing into doubt her bid to stand for president in 2027.

Marine Le Pen was born in France in 1968. Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was a politician, a veteran of the Algerian War, and the founder of the National Front.

Marine’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, led the National Rally from 1972 to 2011. Marine subsequently took his place in 2011 and served as the party’s president for the next eleven years.

But 2025 has delivered a double blow for the Le Pen dynasty – first with Jean Marie Le Pen’s passing in January and now Marine’s forced departure from the political stage. Ad Feedback Subscribe ...