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Breakingviews: Marine Le Pen election ban worsens French chaos
The court's decision will make it more difficult for the weak minority government to make the crucial decisions needed to control a ballooning public debt.
Marine Le Pen vows to fight election ban in scathing attack on court’s ‘politician decision’ after embezzlement conviction
Marine Le Pen has attacked a court’s decision to ban her from standing for election after she was found guilty of embezzling funds from the European parliament.The leader of the far-right National ...
Marine Le Pen attacks five-year ban from running for public office as 'political decision'
Le Pen's ban - after being found guilty of embezzling EU funds - means she would not be able to run in the 2027 French ...
France's Le Pen convicted of graft, gets five year election ban
Le Pen, the RN and two dozen party figures were accused of diverting more than 4 million Euros ($4.33 million) of European Parliament funds to pay France-based staff. They had argued the money was ...
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Marine Le Pen’s ban polarises France
F or the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement into a more respectable nationalist party ready to govern. The French ...
The Embezzlement Scheme That Led to Le Pen’s Elections Ban
Marine Le Pen was at the heart of a system to create phony contracts directing millions in EU funding to her inner circle and ...
Marine Le Pen’s 2027 French presidency bid in jeopardy after election ban
A French court on Monday threw into severe doubt far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s 2027 bid for president, handing her a five-year ban on running for office after convicting her over a fake jobs scheme ...
Marine Le Pen goes on the offensive after 5-year ban
Le Pen was sentenced on Monday to an immediate ban on standing for election for five years, which would make it impossible for her to run for president in 2027 unless the ban is overturned in an ...
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Marine Le Pen's ban outraged France's far right - they may well take revenge
Could the National Rally retaliate in parliament by attempting to bring down the fragile coalition government?
Ban on Le Pen Candidacy Rocks French Politics
French courts took a dramatic intervention in the country’s next presidential election, banning far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running. She and her National Rally party were found guilty of ...
The Irish Times11d
Marine Le Pen rallies her supporters to protest election ban
potentially giving her enough time to contest the election, if her conviction is overturned. Le Pen was greeted by cheers of “Marine présidente” as she told the crowds gathered at Place ...
Fact Check: Le Pen rally crowd estimates on April 6 range from 7,000 to 15,000, not 100,000
Crowd estimates at a rally in support of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen in Paris on April 6 range between 7,000 and 15,000 people, not 100,000, as claimed on social media.