French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement charges in a Paris court on Monday and was handed a sentence that will bar her from the country’s 2027 presidential election.

Judges convicted the far-right leader of misusing EU funds and barred her from running in the 2027 presidential elections.

The far-right French politician was a leading candidate to become the country’s next president, but has now been barred from running for public office for five years.

Far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds, in a politically explosive ruling that has shattered her hopes of winning France’s 2027 presidential election.

U.S. president says the embezzlement case on which France’s right-wing figurehead was found guilty sounds “like a ‘bookkeeping’ error to me.”

A court found her guilty of fraud for the misuse of European Union funds, meaning the front-runner to replace Emmanuel Macron as French President has been deemed ineligible for public office.

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.

US President Donald Trump condemned the conviction and political ban of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Le Pen, sentenced for embezzling EU fun