The conviction of Marine Le Pen
Barred from public office for five years, France’s presidential front-runner is committed to fighting her prosecutor.
ByMarine Le Pen
Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen, better known as Marine Le Pen, is a French lawyer and politician. She is a member of the National Rally (RN; which was previously known as the National Front, FN), and she was its president from 2011 to 2021. Le Pen ran for the French presidency in 2012, 2017 and 2022. Here you can find all of our latest news, analysis and comment about Marine Le Pen.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, grandfather of the French far right
The extremist founder and former president of the National Front has died at 96.
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Emmanuel Macron’s Fifth Republic is crumbling
Following the no-confidence vote in Michel Barnier’s government, can the president survive this political crisis?
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Can Michel Barnier save Emmanuel Macron?
The French president’s calculation may appease Marine Le Pen but it risks mutiny on the left.
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EU leaders are pushing the hard right to form a united front
Sidelining Giorgia Meloni may have unwittingly taught her how to work around the union’s rules.
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Can France’s anti-Le Pen alliance survive?
Political chaos, confusion and incompetence are almost inevitable after no single grouping wins a parliamentary majority.
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Letter of the week: The trouble with democracy
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The Macron era is over
The success of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France’s parliamentary elections has annihilated the president’s power base.
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What the National Rally’s rise means for Labour
Keir Starmer and David Lammy may soon be faced with nationalist governments across the Atlantic and the Channel.
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A staggering first-round victory for Marine Le Pen
Emmanuel Macron’s political gamble has backfired.
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How the far right seduced France’s Gen Z
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella have the following of political rock stars.
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Can the rampant New Right challenge the power of Brussels?
This is just the start of Marine Le Pen and Giorgia Meloni’s plot to remake the continent.
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Can Marine Le Pen win without the elites?
The French far-right politician has cast herself as the candidate of the people. That might be a mistake.
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Is Emmanuel Macron running out of options?
The French president is at risk of being remembered not as an ambitious reformer but as the leader who handed…
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Macron’s interior minister signals his authoritarian shift
As the French president endures weekly protests, Gérald Darmanin has emerged as his most prominent law and order hard-liner.
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Europe’s far-right parties are learning from one another
With the hard right in power in Italy and Sweden, sister parties across the EU are hoping they will be…
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Emmanuel Macron: the man who would be king
How the French president became the most powerful leader in Europe and a hyperactive player on the world stage.
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Jordan Bardella is the rising star of the French far right
The 28-year-old politician replacing Marine Le Pen as head of the National Rally has largely stuck to his predecessor’s positions.
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France’s far-right and far-left are uniting against Emmanuel Macron
Just months into his second term, the French president is scrambling to pass his agenda without a majority in parliament.
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The EU’s energy crisis is emboldening the European far right
Six months into the Ukraine war, the shock that temporarily banished pro-Russian views from European politics is wearing off.
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