Analysts say the judgment barring Marine Le Pen from running for public office plunges France into more political uncertainty.

After the far-right leader was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running for office, her supporters cried foul. Was justice served or politicized?

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.

An appeals court reportedly says it will try to adjudicate her case in time for the presidential election.

As the verdict was being read by the judge, Marine Le Pen sat stony-faced in the dock at the Paris criminal court next to her National Rally colleagues on trial for the misuse of public funds.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 24 other party officials are accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to instead pay staff who worked for the party.

Convicted of embezzlement and slapped with a five year ban on running for public office, where does arch-conservative Marine Le Pen go from here — and will the movement she leads follow?