The request puts the French far-right leader’s ability to participate in the 2027 presidential race at stake.
Paris prosecutors have requested a two-year prison sentence for far-right leader Marine Le Pen and an additional five-year period of ineligibility to run for office in a trial over the suspected embezzlement of European parliament funds.The National Rally party and 25 of its officials, includingMarine Le Pen arrives for the trial over the suspected embezzlement of European parliament funds.
The flags of the European Union member states outside the Louise Weiss building, the principle seat of the European parliament, in Strasbourg, France.Le Pen was runner-up to President Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, and her party’s electoral support has grown in recent years.
Parliamentary aide “is a status,” she said. “It says nothing about the job, nothing about the work required, from the secretary to the speechwriter, from the lawyer to the graphic designer, from the bodyguard to the MEP’s office employee.”
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