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French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office

www.france24.com Live: France’s Le Pen vows to fight election ban, says verdict ‘violates rule of law’

A French court handed far-right leader Marine Le Pen a five-year ban on running for office on embezzlement charges Monday, dashing her ambitions of standing in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully…

Live: France’s Le Pen vows to fight election ban, says verdict ‘violates rule of law’

A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions of standing in the next presidential race.

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