French presidential election 2022 - Page 2

French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has paused her election campaign over a lack of official endorsements needed for her to run for office in April.

Facebook parent company Meta has announced it will be implementing a ‘fact checking’ service in its messaging platform WhatsApp, in order to counter so-called ‘fake news’ during the upcoming French presidential election.

French Presidential candidate Zemmour has announced that he had a “warm” conversation with former President Donald Trump on Monday evening.

France’s presidential election is heating up, with Zemmour saying that it is his duty to ‘save France’ from the ‘Great Replacement’, and that the country will be ‘Lebanon’ in five to ten years should he not win the race to the Élysée Palace.

Marion Marechal, a former French MP and niece of populist National Rally leader Marine Le Pen stated she will not be voting for her aunt.

Presidential hopeful Zemmour came under fire for saying reducing immigration to zero would decrease levels of crime.

Populist National Rally (RN) leader and French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has achieved a record level of popularity in a new poll, while French President Emmanuel Macron has seen a decline. The popularity of Ms Le Pen has risen

Matteo Salvini said that the demographic problems facing Italy and other Western nations cannot be solved through mass migration

The migrant crime comments hate speech trial for French conservative commentator Eric Zemmour, a presidential hopeful, began on Wednesday.

Conservative writer and presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour was slammed after jokingly pointing a rifle at journalists at a trade show.  

French Communist Party (PCF) presidential candidate Fabien Roussel has called for those convicted of racism or hate crimes to be ineligible for public office.

Four in ten French say they would like to see immigration numbers reduced to zero, according to a poll released this week as all leading French presidential candidates adopt tough migration policies.

A poll released this week has seen conservative writer Eric Zemmour pass populist National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen in the first round of next spring’s French presidential election.

Populist French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has revealed her plan to drastically reduce immigration into the country. 

Conservative French presidential hopeful Xavier Bertrand has warned that France faces a real risk of civil war and gang violence as urban violence continues throughout the country.

Conservative writer and potential French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour could face trial for inciting hatred during the middle of next year’s election.

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.

France should commit to a three to five-year moratorium on immigration in light of problems such as terrorism, the European Union’s former chief Brexit negotiator has said.

The vast majority of French think “security and the fight against terrorism” are important issues for the presidential elections in 2022.

The EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has warned that French populist Marine Le Pen may triumph in next year’s French presidential elections if mainstream politicians do not listen to anger in society.

Populist French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen could achieve victory in next year’s elections under certain conditions, according to a study by the Jean-Jaurès Foundation.

A former top French civil servant has said France should change its electoral traditions to prevent a populist victory for Marine Le Pen. 

In a second-round run-off, French populist candidate Marine Le Pen would defeat nearly all of the proposed left-wing candidates. 

Former French minister Arnaud Montebourg has claimed that populist party leader Marine Le Pen could win next year’s presidential elections.

French president Emmanuel Macron has warned that Turkey’s government, led by Islamist president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will make attempts to interfere in next year’s presidential elections.

Populist MP Marine Le Pen has promised to organise a national referendum on migration as her first act as president if she wins the French elections in 2022.

French presidential candidates are making the topic of birthrates a campaign issue for next year’s election after a report revealed 2020 had one of the lowest numbers of births in decades.

A poll on a second-round duel in next year’s French presidential election between current President Emmanuel Macron and populist leader Marine Le Pen has revealed that both candidates are almost neck and neck.