Le Pen, 56, handpicked Bardella to head the party in 2022 – ending a 50-year-rule by the Le Pen dynasty – and bring a fresh boost to the French populist right.

Ms. Le Pen, an anti-immigrant, populist politician, was also sentenced to four years in prison — with two years suspended and two that could be served under house arrest — and fined 100,000 ...

French prosecutors have asked for prison time and a five-year ban from politics for far-right leader Marine Le Pen, potentially derailing her bid to become president in 2027.

The European Prosecutor's Office announced on Tuesday the opening of an investigation into the alleged embezzlement of up to ...

Le Pen was the runner-up in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, losing to French President Emmanuel Macron. Her right-wing party has received increasing support in the past decade.

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 ...

Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right leader, was sentenced to prison and barred from running for office for five years after a court convicted her of embezzlement.

The figurehead of France’s far-right party has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in an attempt to overturn a ...

Le Pen, who’s played a key role in rebranding the party to broaden its appeal, has led the far-right to grow support during the last three presidential elections, evolving from 17.9 % in 2012 to ...

Le Pen, 56, was runner-up to President Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, and her party’s electoral support has grown in recent years.

Le Pen said she would ask that the court proceedings take place before the 2027 campaign. Only an appellate ruling that overturns the ban on public office could restore her hopes of running.

Marine Le Pen’s party unveiled its economic program that includes tax cuts for corporations and measures to favor French citizens, an agenda that could complicate Prime Minister Michel Barnier ...