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A week after Marine Le Pen was found guilty of using European Parliament funds to pay party staff in France, thousands gathered to protest against her ban from running for office.
After the far-right leader was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running for office, her supporters cried foul. Was justice served or politicized?
Could the National Rally retaliate in parliament by attempting to bring down the fragile coalition government?
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French politics to get 'even messier' as far-right figurehead Le Pen rails against ban, analysts warnNational Rally Spokesperson Fabrice Leggeri told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" Tuesday that the ruling was a "threat to French democracy" and that there was a lack of "neutrality" in the French ...
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthquake
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 ...
Jordan Bardella, her 29-year-old protégé who could replace her on the ballot in 2027 if she can’t run, said on X that Le Pen “is being unjustly condemned” and that French democracy “is being executed.
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'French democracy executed': Far-right leader Marine Le Pen gets 5-year political ban, 4-year prison term(I am Marine!). Jordan Bardella, the 29-year-old leader of RN who is not implicated in the case, condemned the verdict, calling it an attack on French democracy. "Today, it is not only Marine Le ...
After a court disqualified her on Monday from running for public office for five years, those millions of French voters are adrift and angry. France is a democracy governed by the rule of law ...
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.
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