Yet another French government appears on the brink of falling as a go-for-broke gambit from Prime Minister François Bayrou to call for a vote of confidence ahead of the budget fight appears set for failure as the opposition right and left look to vote against the government.
Thousands of people gathered in Paris on Sunday to protest against the court decision effectively banning National Rally leader Marine Le Pen from running in the 2027 presidential election, in which she stands as the undisputed frontrunner.
In his first comments since the controversial court ruling to ban longstanding rival Marine Le Pen from the next presidential election, French President Emmanuel Macron rejected accusations that the country’s judicial system is biased.
The controversial move to ban National Rally leader Marine Le Pen from standing in the French presidential election has been accused of demonstrating double standards, with reports claiming that over a hundred other European politicians violated the same rules without facing prosecution.
National Rally leader Marine Le Pen’s prospect of continuing her bid to become the next president of France in 2027 was given a boost as the Paris Court of Appeal said it will look to decide whether to uphold or scrap the ban on her from elections by next year.
National Rally leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to fight a Paris court’s decision to ban her from standing in the upcoming presidential election, accusing the judiciary of acting politically and attempting to undermine the people’s sovereignty.
A Paris court ruled Monday that National Rally leader Marine Le Pen will be ineligible to run for public office for five years, likely including in the upcoming presidential race, after being found guilty of embezzlement of European Union funds.
An Antifa leader on France’s national security watchlist has been elected to the National Assembly as a member of the New Popular Front.
Marine Le Pen celebrated the “rising tide” after winning the most seats in the National Assembly in the history of her populist party.
Emmanuel Macron reportedly refused the offer of resignation from his prime minister despite the far-left demanding he appoint a leftist as PM following their victory in Sunday’s elections.
The French election results showed the alliance between President Macron and the far left blocked the National Rally from a majority.
The far-left New Popular Front has come out on top in the French elections after making a deal with Macron to stop Marine Le Pen’s populist party.
Populist right says party would use French Parliament to block President Macron from deploying soldiers to the Ukraine War.
Emmanuel Macron reportedly railed against the limit on presidential terms preventing him from running again in 2027 as “disastrous bullshit”.
Recently returned president Emmanuel Macron is warning of “disorder” and “chaos” as a result of a far-left surge in France.
France’s Greens and the party of far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon reached an agreement Monday to join forces against President Macron.
The leftist leaders of Germany, Spain, and Portugal urged the French public to back incumbent President Macron over Marine Le Pen.
Disgraced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the latest establishment figure to back Emmanuel Macron in his re-election bid.
Launched her bid for the French presidency, Marine Le Pen promised to take on the “Talibanised” areas of France.
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has announced he will run for the French presidency, vowing to take a harder line on immigration than incumbent Emmanuel Macron.
A far-left activist of the French Communist Party (PCF) was arrested after allegedly attacking three conservative activists with a baseball bat in the suburbs of Paris ahead of the second round of regional election voting. The incident took place on
A poll has revealed that as much as 60 per cent of the French police support populist National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen for president ahead of next year’s presidential elections.
PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron’s party, including untested novices, will be sweeping into the lower house of the French parliament, hogging a clear majority of seats after winning an overwhelming victory in Sunday’s elections and clinching the young leader’s hold on power.
PARIS (AP) — French politicians came together in condemnation after a former minister was attacked Thursday and collapsed while campaigning ahead of legislative elections this weekend. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet’s campaign team said the former environment minister under ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy was
PARIS (AP) — Candidates in the runoff of French parliamentary elections are hitting the campaign trail to try to lure voters to cast ballots next weekend after a record abstention rate in the first round and a likely sweep by President Emmanuel Macron’s new party.
PARIS (AP) – One month after President Emmanuel Macron’s arrival in power, French voters must now choose lawmakers in parliamentary elections starting Sunday that may dramatically reshape the political landscape. Here’s a look at the French system and what’s at
PARIS (AP) — In order to govern properly, Macron’s fledgling political movement La Republique En Marche (Republic On the Move) must now scramble together a majority of lawmakers in June’s parliamentary elections.
PARIS (AFP) – A third of French voters declined to choose between centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s presidential election, either abstaining or spoiling their ballots — a record rate in nearly half a century.
PARIS (AP) — Police arrested 141 people overnight in eastern Paris in clashes with masked protesters after the election of pro-business independent Emmanuel Macron as France’s new president.
PARIS (AP) — Michael Roth, Germany’s deputy foreign minister, says the result was marred by right wing candidate Marine Le Pen getting 11 million votes.
Populist French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been pelted with eggs as she arrived at a public appearance on the campaign trail in Brittany.
PARIS (AP) — Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are preparing for their one-on-one televised French presidential election debate, with much at stake for both contenders.
PARIS (AP) — Marine Le Pen deliberately plagiarized verbatim parts of an address from a former presidential candidate, as a “wink” to him and the voters she hopes to peel away in a runoff, her spokesmen said Tuesday.
Two police have been injured as riots erupted in Paris, after supporter and opponents of populist presidential candidate Marine Le Pen took to the streets for a May Day workers’ march.
PARIS (AP) — Centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has launched a political offensive against far-right leader Marine Le Pen, saying her platform is based on the “hatred for others” in contrast to his desire to “calm” the country.
PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor says the Champs-Elysees attacker had a note defending the Islamic State group with him when he opened fire on police officers.
President Donald Trump predicted that Thursday’s terrorist attack in France would directly affect the results of the presidential election.
PARIS (AP) — Far-left presidential candidate Philippe Poutou is blaming French politics for the deadly attack on Paris’ Champs-Elysees, in which a police officer and the attacker were killed.
PARIS (AP) — Right-wing presidential candidate Marine Le Pen vowed on Wednesday to end the fear of terrorism in France and stamp out the “poison” of Islamic radicals, holding her final rally in the southern port city of Marseille, where police arrested two men a day earlier on suspicion of plotting an attack around this weekend’s vote.
PARIS (AP) – Hundreds of protesters have marched in Marseille against French right-wing presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, ahead of her final rally in the southern port city.
