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France braces for potential political earthquake: a far-right surge. What to know about the election
The far right seems poised to win biggest share of parliamentary seats; President Emmanuel Macron looks to have made a terrible political bet.
France's far-right National Rally (RN) party looked set to fall short of an absolute majority in parliamentary elections, recent polls showed on the last day of campaigning on Friday, though some politicians and pollsters urged caution.
A growing number of candidates and activists in France have been targeted with violent or verbal attacks in the run-up to Sunday's tense final round of parliamentary elections. Government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot was putting up election posters with her deputy and a party activist in Meudon,
Concerns are growing about political violence ahead of high stakes parliamentary elections in France after a series of lawmakers were attacked while campaigning.
Far right leader has won over some French Jews with her tough stance on Islamism, with far left now seen as a threat
The idea that young people lean politically left is being challenged as increasing numbers of that group are supporting the far-right National Rally party.
The country has been shaken by the prospect of the far-right takeover, as the National Rally leader flirts with the center ground.
The writer is a professor at MIT and College de France and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics On July 7, France will enter a new political era, regardless of the outcome of the polls. Either the Rassemblement National (RN) and its allies will have enough seats to get an absolute majority or — if a hastily reinvented “Republican Front” holds — it will be kept out of power for now,
Marine Le Pen has criticised Kylian Mbappé, claiming the football star does not represent immigrants after he urged his fans to vote against her party.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Friday said that Kylian Mbappe should not be telling French people how to vote after the football star warned the country could not be left "in the hands of these people".
France’s election campaign has seen more than 50 violent attacks on candidates and activists, a senior government minister has warned, as the country braces for a crunch final round of voting. Some 30,
The French elections could end in a historic change. What is at stake?
Marine Le Pen dismissed projections that show her far-right National Rally party is set to fall well short of an absolute majority in the French legislative election and warned of a “quagmire” if she doesn’t get a mandate to govern.
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is set to fall well short of an absolute majority in the French legislative election on Sunday, according to projections from polling company Elabe for BFM TV and La Tribune Dimanche.
France is home to Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish populations. The election, called by President Emmanuel Macron after his alliance lost widely to the RN in European elections, is adding to strains on those communities,
The French far right and its struggling rivals make a final push for votes on Friday ahead of the decisive round of parliamentary elections that were called in a major
National Rally has to some extent sloughed off its reputation as a pariah; French conservative politicians such as François Fillon played an outsized role in shifting the electorate.
With the far-right National Rally leading the polls for Sunday's second and final round of elections, the country is grappling with how the party could change France.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen insisted Thursday her party can still win control of parliament despite the centre and left scrambling to block her way and football hero Kylian
For decades, there’s been a strong political taboo in France against a far-right party coming to power. Now, just weeks before the showcase Summer Olympics begin in Paris, the nationalist-populist National Rally is making its most concerted bid ever to do just that.
More than 30 people have been arrested, including militants from far-right and far-left groups, with tension mounting ahead of the run-off vote, and the anti-immigration National Rally party ahead.
Nouriel Roubini holds out hope that markets and European institutions might constrain a National Rally government.
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is set to fall well short of an absolute majority in the French legislative election on Sunday, according to projections from polling companies.
Voters in France cast ballots Sunday in a runoff election between a far-right party and a coalition of moderate and centrist parties.
France on Saturday prepared for its most consequential legislative election of recent times, with residents of overseas territories opening voting for a poll expected to give the far right its
French voters could usher in the country's first far-right Parliament since one was installed in WWII, but candidates are dropping out of the race in an effort to try to stop it.