The far-right MP, sentenced initially to four years in prison and five years of ineligibility in the case involving fake jobs for assistants to MEPs, has stopped proclaiming her innocence. She now admits she may have inadvertently committed an offense, while arguing that the European Parliament failed to raise the alarm.

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…

OP-ED. In the ideological battle that followed the conviction of the president of the far-right Rassemblement National, the very future of French democracy is at stake, writes…