The cases of France’s Marine Le Pen and Romania’s Calin Georgescu have stoked fury among Europe’s right-wing nationalists and many members of the Trump administration, who see voters’ demands being thwarted.

French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen is awaiting a sentence after a national court convicted her and other members of her National Rally party of embezzlement on Monday.

Marine Le Pen, the front-runner to replace French President Emmanuel Macron in 2027, was found guilty of embezzlement by a Paris court.

The sentence made the far-right leader ineligible for five years, excluding her from the 2027 election unless she can secure a more favorable outcome on appeal.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday night to criticize the recent conviction against French politician Marine Le Pen.

After the far-right leader was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running for office, her supporters cried foul. Was justice served or politicized?

She was found guilty of misappropriating EU funds. The sentence will stop her running for president in 2027 unless she successfully appeals.

President Donald Trump has called Marine Le Pen's exclusion from electoral office a “witch hunt” and given his backing to the French far-right leader, calling for her to be set “free”.The 56-year-old leader was found guilty on Monday of fabricating jobs at the EU parliament and using taxpayer funds to hire assistants who actually got hired by her party in France.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 24 other party officials are accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to instead pay staff who worked for the party.