The French far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen and a slew of fellow National Rally (RN) chiefs will go on trial on Monday over allegations they embezzled money from the European parliament with fake jobs.

For Le Pen, the hearings risk overshadowing a record performance in July’s snap parliamentary poll that handed the RN 126 seats – enough to sway prime minister Michel Barnier’s shaky minority government.

Going on trial in Paris are: the RN party itself, nine former MEPs including Le Pen and party vice-president Louis Aliot, spokesperson Julien Odoul – one of nine former parliamentary assistants – and four RN staff.

First flagged in 2015, the alleged fake jobs system at the RN covers contracts for parliamentary assistants between 2004 and 2016.

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