The family of France’s right-wing political scion Jean-Marie Le Pen must repay about $350,000 in parliamentary funds after ...

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 presidential hopes and ...

France Reporter's Notebook: Aftershock from a political 'earthquake' as Le Pen barred from presidential run in 2027 Le Pen declared on French media, 'We won’t give in,' says will appeal case ...

Marine Le Pen mines populist playbook to rally support after political ban Far-right leader Le Pen might struggle to mobilize support by portraying her conviction as the result of an establishment ...

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far right and a leading candidate to become the country’s next president, has been barred from running for public office for five years, after she and her ...

Marine Le Pen will not be a candidate in France’s 2027 presidential elections. For now, at least, that is the letter of a major court ruling against the longtime leader of the French far right ...

“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.

PARIS (AP) — France's Le Pen says court ruling barring her from public office is 'political' and aims to block her from 2027 election.

Le Pen denounced the verdict in an interview with French TV channel TF1 as a “political” move aimed at preventing her from running in the 2027 presidential election and said that millions of ...

Arnaud Benedetti, a political analyst who has written a book on the RN, said Le Pen's five-year ban was a watershed moment in French politics that would reverberate across parties and through the ...

Harvard's Arthur Goldhammer said that the Le Pen verdict "will completely reshape the French political landscape." "She would have been a front-runner for the presidency in 2027.