France, April 1 -- Marine Le Pen's fight for her political life continued on Tuesday as her far-right National Rally (RN) party mobilised its big guns to champion a leader who was on Monday banned from political life for five years after being found guilty by a French court of misusing EU funds through a fake jobs scam.

RN president, Jordan Bardella, appeared on French TV and radio to hit out at what he described as a democratic scandal.

"Everything will be done to prevent us from coming to power," he told Cnews/Europe 1 in his first major interview in the wake of the judgment.

In the same interview, Bardella, 29, lashed out at the judges while condemning the threats and insults they had recieved following Monday's ruling.

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