Marine Le Pen, who was sentenced last week for an embezzlement conviction, held a rally attended by thousands in protest of her sentence on Sunday, claiming that it was politically motivated.

Le Pen's supporters compare her to President Trump At the heart of that charge stood Jordan Bardella, Le Pen's 29-year-old protégé and president of the National Rally.

The event Sunday had the feel of a campaign rally, with the crowd chanting “Marine, president” as Le Pen spoke. Her party, National Rally, billed it as a “massive” success.

Marine Le Pen has for years been a superstar of Europe’s far-right movement. That was until this week, when a spectacular court ruling banned her from running in France’s 2027 presidential ...

The cases of Marine Le Pen and Calin Georgescu have stoked fury among Europe’s right-wing nationalists and many members of the Trump administration, who see voters’ demands being thwarted.

Le Pen has run for France’s highest office three times: in 2012, 2017 and 2022. “I don’t know Marine Le Pen, but do appreciate how hard she worked for so many years,” Trump wrote.

Marine Le Pen, a far-right French politician, was a leading candidate to become the country’s next president, but has now been barred from running for public office for five years.

PARIS—Marine Le Pen convened a meeting of her party’s European Parliament lawmakers in June 2014 to discuss a vital matter: how to spend the 6.5 million euros the European Union had earmarked ...

It is right to ban Ms Le Pen I disagree with your leader arguing why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president in France (“Ill-suited sentence”, April 5th).

A French criminal court’s disqualification of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French populist party, the Rassemblement National, from running for office for five years, along with a sentence of four ...

Ms Le Pen should indeed be able to stand in 2027. Her appeal would ordinarily take up to two years to reach trial, but the court of appeal has wisely said that it will be decided by the summer of ...