NEWS ANALYSIS. Marine Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National party is well ahead in voter preferences, according to the ...

PARIS (AP) — A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years — a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and ...

The Paris Criminal Court's ruling in March handed Le Pen a four-year prison sentence, including two to be served, a ...

France’s welfare state is in desperate need of reform, but Macron is obsessing over Marine Le Pen.

French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has survived two votes of no-confidence that could have toppled his fragile new ...

The vote clears the way for Mr Lecornu to try to get a 2026 budget through parliament’s bitterly divided lower house before ...

Lecornu - who only took the job in September - resigned earlier this month, before being reappointed. The first vote to ...

The future of Les Républicains hangs in the balance, as high-profile defections and talk of a “coalition of goodwill” with ...

French far-right politician Marine Le Pen has failed in her attempt to overturn her exclusion from elections. The Conseil ...

France’s highest court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by far-right leader Marine Le Pen, dealing a major setback to her ...

France's highest administrative court rejected a challenge to electoral rules by far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday, ...

Plans to increase the pension age have been shelved by an increasingly desperate Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, amid the worst political crisis in decades.