After being found guilty of graft, Le Pen’s bid to lead France has been dealt a blow. Some will see her as a martyr.

Could the National Rally retaliate in parliament by attempting to bring down the fragile coalition government?

France's Le Pen convicted of graft ... supported far-right German party celebrating historic election gains Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far right, dies aged 96 Far right wins first ...

Le Pen’s hopes of becoming France’s president in 2027 were cut ... Le Pen, the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded her party when it was known as the National Front, slammed the ruling ...

Since the party’s creation in 1972, the National Rally has always been led by either Le Pen or her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died earlier this year. Recent polling had indicated that Le Pen ...

A French court found Marine Le Pen guilty on Monday in an embezzlement case, with a sentence that barred her from public office for five years with "immediate effect." ...

MARINE Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzlement and banned from running for office – crushing her ambition to become the ...

Le Pen's ban - after being found guilty of embezzling EU funds - means she would not be able to run in the 2027 French presidential election.

France's Marine Le Pen on Sunday denounced the 'witch hunt' against her National Rally party to thousands of supporters at ...

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 place a ...

There was also unease within the political mainstream in France, with the leader of ... from her father Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011 and set about de-toxifying its image with voters.

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen on ... force and rid it of the legacy of her father, its co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died in January and was frequently accused of racism.