PARIS: Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who needs to have a graft conviction overturned to seize her best chance at the French presidency, risks seeing her life’s work upended if she loses her appeal. Le Pen took over leadership of the National Front (FN) in 2011 from her father Jean-Marie, who co-founded France’s main postwar far-right movement. In a move to distance it from the legacy of her father, who openly made antisemitic and racist statements, she renamed the party the National Rally (RN) and embarked on a policy she dubbed “de-demonization.” The work bore fruit.

PARIS: Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who needs to have a graft conviction overturned to seize her best chance at the French presidency, risks seeing her life’s work upended if…

France’s far-right leader clears path for protégé Jordan Bardella to run in 2027 if embezzlement conviction is upheld

The victimization strategy that Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right Rassemblement National party, adopted after her embezzlement conviction has failed to reach beyond her core…