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Why has Marine Le Pen been barred from standing in French election – and can she appeal?

Marine Le Pen has been convicted of embezzlement. Here’s all you need to know

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2025

French court hands Le Pen five-year election ban in fake jobs case

A French court has banned far-right leader Marine Le Pen from holding public office for five years with immediate effect after finding her guilty of misusing EU funds through a fake jobs scam. The verdict rules out her running in the 2027 presidential race, unless she successfully appeals beforehand.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 31, 2025

Marine Le Pen banned from running for French president after embezzling EU funds

Le Pen handed immediate five-year ban from political office, excluding her from running in the French presidential elections in 2027

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2025

French Jewish group distances itself from far-right leaders' Israel visit

France's main Jewish association on Monday publicly distanced itself from an unprecedented invitation for two key figures in the French far right to attend a conference this week in Israel on the fight against anti-Semitism.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 25, 2025

French far-right leader's presence at Israel anti-Semitism conference stirs controversy

Jordan Bardella, the leader of France's far-right National Rally (RN) party, is to make an unprecedented visit to Israel later this month to attend an international conference on fighting anti-Semitism. While the party has worked to shake off links to Holocaust-denial, some French Jewish figures and politicians are uncomfortable over…

Radio France Internationale · Mar 14, 2025

Trump ‘victory lap’, Musk’s chainsaw, Bannon’s salute: Key CPAC takeaways

The annual gathering of US conservatives enthusiastically welcomes US president’s promise to shrink the government.

Al Jazeera · Feb 23, 2025

Far-right leader Bardella withdraws from US conservative conference over 'Nazi salute'

French far-right leader Jordan Bardella abruptly withdrew from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, citing concerns over a gesture made by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon that he described as 'alluding to Nazi ideology'.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 22, 2025

Nigel Farage and Liz Truss 'taking far-right Reichsmark', Humza Yousaf says

NIGEL Farage and Liz Truss are accepting the far-right "Reichsmark”, Humza Yousaf has said ...

The National (Scotland) · Feb 22, 2025

Even neo-Nazis say it’s getting a ‘little excessive’ following Steve Bannon’s CPAC salute

‘The Manson Family had a more coherent ideology than MAGA. And the liberal criticism that American ‘fascism’ is merely a personality cult around Trump seems justified,’ notorious white supremacist Richard Spencer said on Friday

The Independent UK · Feb 21, 2025

France’s Bardella cancels CPAC speech after Steve Bannon’s ‘Nazi’ gesture

Steve Bannon denied that his gesture was a Nazi salute and described it as a ‘wave’.

Al Jazeera · Feb 21, 2025