Marine Le Pen brought far right to France's front door
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Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally has organized a major protest for Paris on Sunday after a court barred her from the next French presidential election.
From DPA International
Le Pen denounced the verdict in an interview with French TV channel TF1 as a “political” move aimed at preventing her from running in the 2027 presidential election and said that millions of French p...
From Associated Press
The decision has landed in French politics like a bomb, owing to one aspect of Ms Le Pen’s sentence: she is barred for five years from running for office, with immediate effect.
From The Economist
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A court ruling barring far-right politician Marine Le Pen from office for five years has reverberated across France and Europe.
France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running in elections for five years.
French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen attends a party meeting in Nanterre, France, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon. File) French far-right leader Marine Le Pen reacts at the National Assembly before French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou delivers his general policy speech meant to outline his top priorities,
A Paris court said on Tuesday three appeals have been filed so far in the case against the far-right National Rally party that saw leader Marine Le Pen banned from running for office for five years, but did not provide details on who had filed them.
The far-right French politician was a leading candidate to become the country’s next president, but has now been barred from running for public office for five years.
Marine Le Pen, the front-runner to replace French President Emmanuel Macron in 2027, was found guilty of embezzlement by a Paris court.
The home address of Benedicte de Perthuis - the head of a three-judge panel that found Le Pen guilty of embezzling EU funds and handed her a five-year ban on seeking public office - was shared online after she delivered her ruling on Monday, the source said. She is now receiving police protection at work and at home.
Le Pen, the National Rally and two dozen party figures were accused of diverting more than 4 million euros ($4.33 million) of European Parliament funds to