Request from Paris prosecutor threatens to undermine the National Rally leader’s efforts to polish image ahead of 2027 elections
The Paris prosecutor on has requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office for far-right leader Marine Le Pen, at a trial in which she and 24 others are accused of embezzling European Union funds.
The trial, which comes almost a decade after initial investigations started, threatens to undermine her National Rally (RN) party’s efforts to polish its image ahead of the 2027 presidential election which many believe she could win.
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