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 is set to appeal her four-year jail sentence and presidential election ban after supporters of the National Rally leader slammed judges for anti-right wing bias. France's hard-right ...

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been sentenced ... out of the 2027 presidential race. Le Pen won’t serve the house arrest sentence until all appeals are exhausted ...

The judge also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence - of which two years are suspended and the rest served under home detention - and a 100,000 euro fine.

A French court on Monday sentenced far-right leader Marine Le Pen to a five-year ban on running ... but before the judge announced the prison sentence, an AFP correspondent said.

The ruling in a Paris court that the far-right leader is guilty of misappropriating public funds will probably eliminate her from the 2027 presidential election.

But Eric Zimmour, president of the far-right Reconquest Party slammed the sentence, saying: 'It is not for judges to decide who the people must vote for. Whatever our disagreements, Marine Le Pen ...

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 its ...

Judges convicted the far-right leader of misusing EU funds and barred her from running in the 2027 presidential elections.

A member of the French Parliament, Le Pen and others were accused of misusing 4.4 million euros, or $4.8 million, in European Parliament funds to pay staff who were working for he ...

Marine Le Pen, the figurehead of the ascendant far-right political movement in France, was hit with a non-custodial prison sentence and barred from running in elections for five years on Monday as ...