The vice president of the National Rally (RN, Rassemblement National), Louis Aliot, leaves the party headquarters without responding to journalists after a French court found Marine Le Pen ineligible to stand for president in 2027 and gave her a four-year prison sentence, half of it suspended, for embezzlement of European parliament funds. Including Le Pen, nine figures from her National Rally (RN) party were convicted over a scheme where they took advantage of European Parliament expenses to employ assistants who were actually working for the party. IMAGES