French prosecutors seek 7-year sentence for Sarkozy in Libya campaign financing trial
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors on Thursday requested a seven-year prison sentence and a 300,000-euro (around $325,000) fine ...
Trump Weighs In, Making Marine Le Pen’s Case Part of the Politics of Grievance
The American president cast the French politician’s conviction as an example of far-right persecution, ignoring ample ...
What the convictions of Sarkozy and Le Pen have in common: Media and political attacks against the courts
COLUMN. Constructed as both a means of defense and a political weapon, the contestation of judges' decisions is not a sign of ...
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In the Le Pen Verdict, the French Far Right Sees a Political Declaration of War
The sentence looks primed to set off a firestorm on the far right, both in France and across Europe. A visibly stunned Marine ...
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Sarkozy and Le Pen apologists are wrong: there is no 'judges' Republic' - just the Republic's judges
The court verdict that has effectively barred far-right leader Marine Le Pen from standing at the 2027 presidential election, ...
How Le Pen's Guilty Sentence Could Be Her Trump Mug Shot Moment: 'Declaration of War'
Le Pen and officials in her party, the National Rally, were found guilty of misusing European Parliament funds.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen banned from 2027 presidential race, throwing French politics into disarray
Far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty ...
Here’s a look at the election ban on France’s far-right Le Pen and the legal issues
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has denounced as “a democratic scandal” the court ruling that placed a five-year ban on ...
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Sarkozy, Tapie, Le Pen: famous cases of ineligibility in France
Marine Le Pen isn't the first prominent French politician to be disqualified from public office. Since it stopped being ...
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Marine Le Pen attacks the Justice system, and the Court of Appeal expects to make a decision on her sentence "in the summer of 2026"
The historic leader of the far-right, who has been sentenced, ensures that they will not allow "the French presidential ...
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Marine Le Pen arrives at the courts to hear the sentence that threatens her political future
The leader of the National Rally will learn this Monday the verdict of the Paris Criminal Court in the case regarding the ...