Marine Le Pen Faces Severe Sentencing Demands for Parliamentary Fraud Case
After a lengthy trial, prosecutors in Paris have demanded a five-year prison sentence for Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Rally, related to abuses involving parliamentary assistants. The prosecution seeks three years of the sentence to be suspended, along with a €300,000 fine and five years of ineligibility. Le Pen criticized the prosecution’s demands as excessive and urged the court not to comply. The case alleges a systematic misuse of European parliamentary staffing resources by the party from 2004 to 2016.