National Rally party member Louis Alio leaves the National Rally headquarters after a French court barred Marine Le Pen from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect, for embezzlement, Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives at a Paris court expected to deliver a verdict in an embezzlement case that could shake up French politics and derail far-right leader Marine Le Pen's career Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives at a Paris court expected to deliver a verdict in an embezzlement case that could shake up French politics and derail far-right leader Marine Le Pen's career Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)FILE - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen answers to the media during a gathering in support of detained Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, in Paris, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)Far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, after a French court convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years, Monday, March 31, 2025, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the National Rally headquarters after a French court convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years, Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the National Rally headquarters after a French court convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years, Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom after a French court found Marine Le Pen guilty on in an embezzlement case but didn't immediately say what her sentence might be and how it might impact the far-right leader's political future, Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's lawyer Rodolphe Bosselut answers reporters outside the National Rally headquarters after a French court barred Marine Le Pen from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect, for embezzlement, Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)FILE - This courtroom sketch by Valentin Pasquier shows French far-right leader Marine Le Pen during his trial, facing court on charges of embezzling EU funds at the Paris court house, in Paris France, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Valentin Pasquier, File)French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom after a French court found Marine Le Pen guilty in an embezzlement case but didn't immediately say what her sentence might be and how it might impact the far-right leader's political future, Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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National Rally party member Louis Alio leaves the National Rally headquarters after a French court barred Marine Le Pen from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect, for embezzlement, Monday, March 31, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
