Marine Le Pen, the voice of France’s growing right-wing movement, is appealing her conviction in hopes of overturning the restriction on her ability to run for president of France. Le Pen, the front-runner to replace French President Emmanuel Macron in 2027,

The sentence made the far-right leader ineligible for five years, excluding her from the 2027 election unless she can secure a more favorable outcome on appeal.

Far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds, in a politically explosive ruling that has shattered her hopes of winning France’s 2027 presidential election.

French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen is awaiting a sentence after a national court convicted her and other members of her National Rally party of embezzlement on Monday.

Donald Trump has lashed out at "European Leftists" and demanded that France "free" far-right leader Marine Le Pen. The US President took to Truth Social to brand her ban from running for the presidency in 2027 as a "witch hunt".

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 hard-right leader had a reasonable chance of winning the highest office in 2027,

After the far-right leader was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running for office, her supporters cried foul. Was justice served or politicized?

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.