French politics

The lawfare attempts to derail the populist National Rally in France may backfire, with a survey this week finding that Le Pen deputy Jordan Bardella would win the next presidential election against any other major opponent.

Former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has branded the second presidential term of Emmanuel Macron as a “shipwreck” that has descended into political chaos and gridlock.

French populist leader Marine Le Pen has stated that if the appeal against her five-year election ban is unsuccessful, she will step aside and support her deputy, Jordan Bardella, in the race to replace President Emmanuel Macron.

The Élysée Palace has claimed that hackers previously changed French First Lady Brigitte Macron’s name to her brother’s in the national tax database.

Faith in the French political system has completely collapsed according to an annual survey, which found staggering levels of dissatisfaction with the direction of the country and the establishment in Paris.

France may be teetering on the verge of national snap elections, but the poll-topping sovereigntist is banned from even standing.

French PM narrowly avoided govt dissolution for a second time in two weeks, prompting opposition to launch impeachment process for Macron. 

French National Rally leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to censure any government put forward by President Emmanuel Macron, arguing that the only way out of the ongoing political crisis would be to hold elections.

Ex-French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, a longtime ally of President Emmanuel Macron, has called for his former boss to hold early presidential elections to end the political crisis facing the country.

French political firebrand Marion Maréchal has called on the various factions of the right-wing to unite to defeat the forces of the left and the neo-liberal establishment in Paris.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s grip on the Élysée Palace is becoming increasingly tenuous as he faces calls to resign or dissolve the National Assembly in the wake of the collapse of the third government in Paris in under a year on Monday morning.

Just hours after forming his government, new French PM Lecornu submitted his resignation, becoming the shortest-lived leader ever.

Marine Le Pen and her National Rally deputy Jordan Bardella have “firmly established dominance” over the field of prospective candidates to replace French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the latest survey from Ifop.

The outpouring of emotion by the tens of thousands gathered in Arizona on Sunday to honour the life and legacy of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was viciously attacked in the French press, with some comparing the memorial to a Nazi rally.

The far-left France in Revolt party is reportedly threatening to sue a publisher in an attempt to block the release of a book by a Syrian journalist documenting their ties to radical Islamist groups seeking to institute Sharia.

Armed Services Minister Sébastien Lecornu has been appointed as the next prime minister of France, the third such appointment by President Macron over the past year.

French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected calls from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally to hold fresh elections in the wake of the collapse of another government in Paris.

Paris politics has once again descended into chaos, as the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou collapsed on Monday after the National Assembly overwhelmingly voted against a confidence measure brought forward by the embattled PM in a last-ditch effort to pass through a national budget. 

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.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, have filed a defamation lawsuit against American conservative commentator Candace Owens over claims that the French First Lady was born as a man.

Support for Emmanuel Macron has fallen to its lowest-ever recorded level of his presidency, with fewer than one in five voters backing the increasingly unpopular leader.

A far-left LGBTQ+ activist in France is alleged to have been at the heart of an underground pedophile network that drugged and raped children as young as three years old.

The European Court of Human Rights shut down a request from French populist leader Marine Le Pen to overturn the “political death sentence” ban against her running for office for the next five years.

The headquarters of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party in Paris were raided in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with police seizing documents and computers, prompting accusations of politically inspired lawfare.

Macron appears intent on continuing his grip on power in France, with reports suggesting he may be eyeing a potential third term in office.

French MEP Marion Maréchal has claimed that she is facing “judicial jihad” after being sued for defamation by an organisation which runs an Islamic school over her claims that it is tied to the radical Muslim Brotherhood network.

Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government is facing the prospect of being toppled like its predecessor, with the Socialist Party vowing to launch a motion of no confidence after negotiations broke down over President Macron’s controversial pension reforms.

Nearly sixty per cent of people in France believe that the general state of freedom has eroded under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, a survey has found.

National Rally leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella lead the field of prospective candidates to replace French President Emmanuel Macron when he is termed out in 2027.

The French government told parliamentarians this week that it will take steps to ban one of the leading far-left Antifa groups in the country amid allegations of using violence against political opponents.

Jordan Bardella, the president of the French populist National Rally party, has confirmed that he will stand in the next presidential election if the ban against his long-time mentor, Marine Le Pen, from running is upheld.

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.

Éric Zemmour has been sentenced to pay a 10,000 euro fine after being convicted over comments he made concerning the Holocaust.

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.