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.

Marine Le Pen has attacked a court’s decision to ban her from standing for election after she was found guilty of embezzling funds from the European parliament.The leader of the far-right National ...

Le Pen's ban - after being found guilty of embezzling EU funds - means she would not be able to run in the 2027 French ...

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. The Paris ...

F or the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement ...

Le Pen was sentenced on Monday to an immediate ban on standing for election for five years, which would make it impossible for her to run for president in 2027 unless the ban is overturned in an ...

A French court on Monday threw into severe doubt far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s 2027 bid for president, handing her a five-year ban on running for office after convicting her over a fake jobs scheme ...

Could the National Rally retaliate in parliament by attempting to bring down the fragile coalition government?

The family of Dr Martin Luther King have criticised far-right leader Marine Le Pen for comparing her ban from running in the ...

potentially giving her enough time to contest the election, if her conviction is overturned. Le Pen was greeted by cheers of “Marine présidente” as she told the crowds gathered at Place ...

By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris Marine Le Pen ... waive any ban on running for office. If imposed, however, the disqualification would exclude her from the 2027 presidential election in ...