French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has denounced as “a democratic scandal” the court ruling that placed a five-year ban on her seeking public office for embezzling European Union funds. The Paris court says it would be undemocratic to allow a convicted official to run for president.

President Trump weighed in on French far-right leader Marine Le Pen being barred from seeking office for five years after being convicted of embezzlement, telling reporters that it is a “very big

Le Pen’s party has described the ruling as a ’nuclear bomb’ aimed at silencing one of the country’s most prominent opposition voices. The conviction, which includes a partly suspended jail sentence, h