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.

A French court found Marine Le Pen guilty on Monday in an embezzlement case and barred her from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect. Le Pen's lawyer said she would appeal.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom after a French court found her guilty on in an embezzlement case, Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris. AP.

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… ...

Le Pen was born in 1968 into a family already on the fringes of French politics. In 1972, her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen , founded the National Front party rooted in racism, antisemitism and a ...

Far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds, in a politically explosive ruling ...

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen will not be eligible to run for public office for the next five years after a court found her guilty of embezzlement. CBS News' Elaine Cobbe reports. Mar 31 ...

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.

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the parliamentary group of the far-right French Rassemblement National (RN) party, leaves the Paris courthouse after her trial on March 31, 2025 in Paris, France.

Right-wing politician Marine Le Pen was the polling leader for the 2027 French presidential election after finishing as runner-up in 2017 and 2022.

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 ...