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.

On March 31, a French court found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misappropriating European funds to finance her party. She was sentenced to 4 years in prison and banned from running for ...

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to a five-year ban on running for public office for embezzling EU funds, a major political earthquake. The ruling… ...

PARIS – For years, Marine Le Pen stood at the gates of power — poised, relentless and rising. She stripped the French far right of its old symbols, sanded down its roughest edges and built in ...

PARIS—A French court convicted Marine Le Pen of misusing European Union funds, banning her from the next presidential election in a ruling that upends the country’s political landscape. Monday ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on the day of the verdict of her trial over accusations of misappropriation of European Union funds, at the courthouse in Paris on March 31.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, after a French court convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from ...

President Trump on Thursday defended embattled French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, arguing the “witch hunt” against her is yet another instance of critics in Europe using “lawfare” to ...

Why France's Marine Le Pen can't run for public office for five years 02:48. Convicted of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, far-right politician Marine Le Pen stood ...

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 ...

The judge said Le Pen had been at the heart of a “system” that her party used to siphon off EU parliament money. Le Pen, who denied wrongdoing. was also fined 100,000 euros ($108,000).

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 ...