Populism Rising: Le Pen’s National Rally Makes Historic Gains as Macron Loses Parliamentary Majority
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally won a historic number of seats on Sunday as President Macron failed to maintain his parliamentary majority.
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally won a historic number of seats on Sunday as President Macron failed to maintain his parliamentary majority.
Emmanuel Macron’s alliance got the most seats in the final round of the parliamentary election, but it lost its majority, projections show.
Around 40 per cent Marine Le Pen supporters say they will vote for the far-left if the only other option is President Emmanuel Macron’s bloc.
Recently returned president Emmanuel Macron is warning of “disorder” and “chaos” as a result of a far-left surge in France.
French President Emmanuel Macron may not achieve a majority in the French parliament, and voter abstentions reached a record 52.8 per cent.
Nicolas Bay, of Eric Zemmour’s party Reconquest, has called a right-wing alliance essential going into the French parliamentary elections.
A majority of supporters of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) are in favour of a proposal to form a united right-wing coalition ahead of June’s French parliamentary elections. Around three-quarters of supporters of Le Pen’s National Rally are favourable
Nigel Farage has told Breitbart News that he believes a coming economic crisis will expose the “globalist project” as having failed ordinary people.
Conservative Eric Zemmour has reached out to the Marine Le Pen to form a right-wing coalition ahead of June’s parliament elections.
Muslims in France voted overwhelmingly for Emmanuel Macron, with 85 per cent of Muslim ballots going towards keeping the French President in power.
The European Union and wider international establishment have rushed to congratulate Emmanuel Macron on his victory over populist challenger Marine Le Pen.
A senior Irish politician has decried nationalism on the anniversary of his own country taking up arms against Britain in the hopes of becoming independent.
Populist challenger Marine Le Pen lost her second battle with Emmanuel Macron for the French presidency, but her progress in several areas and demographics may represent a sea-change in European politics.
Election projections indicate that Emmanuel Macron has won the second round of the French presidential elections, despite a big drop in support.
While French voters decide the future of their country at the ballot box, one priest is recovering after being attacked with a knife while performing a Sunday mass.
Polling stations have opened for the second and final round of the French presidential election after Emmanuel Macron made a last-ditch effort to court young voters in a bid to save his presidency.
Opinion polling released just days before Sunday’s French presidential second round vote has put little distance between President Emmanuel Macron and populist challenger
The leftist leaders of Germany, Spain, and Portugal urged the French public to back incumbent President Macron over Marine Le Pen.
A poll released this week suggests that six in ten French people would support the government banning the Islamic veil in public spaces, a policy favoured by Presidential election hopeful Marine Le Pen. The poll, which was conducted by the
Marion Marechal, a vice-president of Eric Zemmour’s Reconquest! party, has called for French conservatives and populists to form a united coalition in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Two important Muslim organizations have thrown their support behind Emmanuel Macron for the second round of voting in France’s presidential elections.
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen duked it out on Wednesday evening, with the populist challenger pressuring the President in a debate on subjects including Islamism, immigration and the economy.
The head of France’s Office of Immigration has stated if Marine Le Pen wins the presidency, he refuses to “collaborate” with her.
Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will face each other in a grudge match debate on Wednesday evening as polling between the two suggests that the election for the French Presidency remains a toss-up.
The EU’s fraud agency has reportedly accused French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of misusing public funds in the EU Parliament.
French bishops are not expected to direct worshippers on how to vote in the French presidential elections as more and more Roman Catholics have become supporters of populist challenger Marine Le Pen.
Emmanuel Macron has doubled down on his green agenda in the hopes of wooing leftist voters as fear grows that populist Le Pen may snatch victory.
Two men have been indicted after the death of a Jewish man who was beaten by a mob before being killed by a tram in the Paris suburbs.
French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has been denounced by a former British ambassador to France for talking up a military alliance with post-Brexit Britain.
The president of a French university has come under fire after telling students and faculty to vote against populist Marine Le Pen.
Populist presidential Marine Le Pen has hinted at the possibility of a referendum that could see the death penalty return to France.
Emmanuel Macron has claimed that those who criticise French lockdown policy are not living in the ‘real world’, while praising one veil-wearing Muslim woman as a feminist.
French prosecutors opened an investigation following riots involving far-left extremists after the first round of the presidential election.
Disgraced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the latest establishment figure to back Emmanuel Macron in his re-election bid.
Speaking in the run up to April 24 French Presidential Election, populist candidate Marine Le Pen has called for a “referendum revolution” to put sweeping policy changes to a democratic vote, claiming President Emmanuel Macron has given power to technocrats.
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen took the top spots and will face off again in 13 days’ time to decide the next French President.
The candidate for the establishment-right Républicains (Republicans) has urged voters to back the left-liberal Emmanuel Macron, not the national conservative Marine Le Pen, as exit polls indicate her own performance in the first round of France’s presidential elections was a dismal failure.
PARIS (AP) – French voters in Sunday’s presidential election will use the same system that’s been used for generations: paper ballots that are cast in person and counted by hand. Despite periodic calls for more flexibility or modernization, France doesn’t do mail-in voting, early voting or use voting machines en masse like the United States.
PARIS (AP) – President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he has no fear of losing France’s presidential election despite far-right rival Marie Le Pen narrowing the gap in opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s first-round vote.
A survey released by a Brazilian-based firm this week has revealed that populist leader Marine Le Pen may be pulling ahead of President Emmanuel Macron as France votes in the first round of its presidential elections this weekend.