Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally (RN) parliamentary group, has been convicted in the European Parliament assistants affair. On March 31, 2025, a Paris court found her and eight other MEPs, along with 12 assistants, guilty of embezzling European Union funds between 2004 and 2016 to pay for domestic party staff. The court sentenced Le Pen to four years in prison—two suspended and two served under electronic monitoring—and a 100,000 euro fine. She was also issued a five-year ban from running for public office, applied with immediate effect. Le Pen has appealed the ruling, and the case remains ongoing as of early 2026.