French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen was convicted by a Paris court and barred from running for office for five years. (Associated Press)
Brazil’s Supreme Court accepted charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro last week over an alleged attempt to remain in office after his 2022 election defeat, ordering the former leader to stand trial.
All five justices ruled in favor of accepting the charges leveled by Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet, who accused Bolsonaro and 33 others of attempting a coup that included a plan to poison his successor, current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and kill a Supreme Court judge.
Calin Georgescu has been banned from running for president in Romania, despite leading in polls. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Italian Vice Premier Matteo Salvini faced years of legal trouble due to accusations that he had illegally detained roughly 100 migrants during his term as interior minister in 2019.
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The 2019 incident saw migrants held offshore on a humanitarian rescue ship. Italian courts dropped the charges against Slavini in December.
"Protecting our country’s borders from smugglers is not a crime," Salvini said shortly after the verdict. "This is a victory for the League and for Italy."
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was jailed last month on corruption charges, though many of his supporters have compared his situation to that of President Donald Trump and the charges he has faced.
A Pakistani court sentenced Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to 14 and seven years in jail after finding them guilty of corruption. They were convicted for allegedly accepting land as a bribe through the Al-Qadir Trust, which they had set up while Khan was in office. Khan, however, maintains his innocence, describing the events as a "witch hunt" in exclusive comments to Fox News Digital. It is just one of the more than 100 cases he is facing.
President Donald Trump is seen at Manhattan criminal court in New York, on Monday, April 15, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Trump has acknowledged that populist leaders like him are facing challenges across the globe. He remarked on Le Pen's "very important" situation in a statement Tuesday.
"She was banned for five years and she was the leading candidate," Trump said. "That sounds like this country, that sounds very much like this country."
Fox News' Avi Kumar, Benjamin Weinthal and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.
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