What do you need to know?     Court ruling: Marine Le Pen has been banned for five years from running for public office, triggering a crisis in her party,

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.

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running in elections for five years.

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

A Paris court said on Tuesday three appeals have been filed so far in the case against the far-right National Rally party that saw leader Marine Le Pen banned from running for office for five years, but did not provide details on who had filed them.