On Monday, a criminal court in France found Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement, and barred her from running for the French Presidency in 2027. Le Pen, the far-right leader of the National Rally ...

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A French court has barred Marine Le Pen from seeking public office for five years for embezzlement, in a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes.

Convicted of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, far-right politician Marine Le Pen stood unshaken before a sea of French flags in Paris on Sunday. "For 30 years I have ...

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A French court rules to bar Marine Le Pen from seeking office for five years. Right-wing leader Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom early, sentenced to imprisonment and disqualified from holding ...

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 the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and an ...

It would be an affront to French democracy, her lawyers will say, if voters are barred from casting ballots for a front-runner in the presidential election in 2027," Rahman noted.

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 ...

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