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.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen insisted Tuesday that her movement could still win 2027 presidential elections after she was banned from standing for office as part of an embezzlement conviction.

Elon Musk's tirade about the embezzlement conviction of extremist politician Marine Le Pen has garnered millions of views in just hours.

The court's decision will make it more difficult for the weak minority government to make the crucial decisions needed to control a ballooning public debt.

Le Pen, her party, the National Rally, and 24 codefendants were charged with misappropriating funds from the European Parliament meant to pay for parliamentary assistants and using that money to pay for party employees who did not work on EU-related business from November 2004 to January 2016.

Mathieu Carpentier, a constitutional law expert at Toulouse Capitole University, rejected the idea that Le Pen was a victim of "judicial warfare". The evidence against her was str