In a speech, Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, cast a judicial decision prohibiting her from running for office as ...

But Marine Le Pen’s case is just one example of transparency problems that have plagued the legislature. From Budapest to Washington, Le Pen’s political allies cried foul over this week’s ...

The judge who barred far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running in France’s 2027 presidential election is under police protection after facing death threats and having her home address shared ...

Le Pen, who has sought to turn the far-right National Rally, known by its French initials RN, into an electable force and rid it of the legacy of her father and its co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, ...

Strasbourg (France) (AFP) – Marine Le Pen's party chief Jordan Bardella denied Wednesday any intent to strong-arm the French judiciary with a rally in support of the veteran far-right leader ...

PARIS – When French far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused the judiciary of deploying a “nuclear bomb” to blow up her presidential hopes, she added France to the countries where accusations ...

While Le Pen railed against her sentence, she has pledged to pursue legal means to re-open her path to 2027, underlining her commitment to playing by the rules of France's Fifth Republic.

Born a little more than 50 years ago, the party was founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen, a former soldier in the Foreign Legion — during his tour of duty in French Algeria, he was accused of torturing ...

Le Pen’s more combative turn breaks with her long-held strategy of seeking to “detoxify” the movement her father Jean-Marie Le Pen started more than 50 years ago in order to overcome its ...

Over the years, the RN has tried to sanitise its image, expelling its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and rebranding itself as pro-Israel. The final step in that rebranding may be erasing the Le Pen name ...

Marine Le Pen says a French court's decision banning her from the 2027 presidential race amounts to "political death". The far-right leader was convicted of embezzling EU funds – a blow not just to ...

And Le Pen’s father, the late Jean-Marie Le Pen, was sentenced to a one-year ban for committing violence against a Socialist rival during the 1997 parliamentary campaign. Last week, French prosecutors ...