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There are many more articles in the corresponding French section, reflecting the range of discussions and point of views within the French (radical) Left, in addition to article on current political situation. Of course, these are... in French. To reach the French section, click on the “translation” button in the left column.
After a delay of 26 days, on Friday May 20th Emmanuel Macron finally appointed the 27 members of the new government under recently-installed prime minister Élisabeth Borne. As Ilyes Ramdani reports, its composition is strikingly similar to the old government and is still anchored firmly to the (...)
As far as his party and some commentators are concerned, Emmanuel Macron sent a “signal to the Left” this week by appointing Élisabeth Borne as France’s new prime minister. It is a sleight of hand that would be laughable if it did not also highlight how the head of state is continuing his attempts (...)
An analysis of the final results of last Sunday’s presidential election shows the extent to which Emmanuel Macron’s electoral strategy paid off handsomely, while at the same time indicating that support for the far-right is now firmly entrenched across the country. It is now abundantly clear that (...)
Dave Kellaway provides his initial analysis of the French presidential election result.
Macron won a comfortable victory in the second round of the French presidential elections with a lead of 17 percentage points which was at least 5 points better than any of the final polls. The last (...)
Emmanuel Macron’s decisive victory over Marine Le Pen in the second round of France’s presidential election on 24 April 2022 is no surprise. For more than a year, opinion polls had been predicting it. As early as April 2021, the leading polling institutes (Elabe, Harris interactive, Ifop, Ipsos) (...)
The promise of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency was straightforward: he would transcend the concepts of left and right, and consign populism to the margins of French politics. His rise to power in the spring of 2017 was an apparent lifeboat for liberals traumatised by Brexit and Donald Trump: here (...)
As in 2017, the second round of the 2022 French presidential election will pit Marine Le Pen, leader of the far right Rassemblement National (RN), against the current President and leader of the En Marche party, Emmanuel Macron. The latter obtained almost 27.85% of votes cast, with Le Pen on (...)
The first round of the French election took place on April 10, and predictably it did nothing to resurrect old-school parliamentarism, five years after Emmanuel Macron first burst into the country’s fragile party system.
On the contrary. Far from stabilising the political order born in 2017, it (...)
Dave Kellaway provides his initial analysis on the first round of the French presidential election results. [First Round results based on the latest estimates (21.00 CET): Not reproduced here.]
Results:
Emmanuel Macron: 27.84 % Marine Le Pen: 23.15 % Jean-Luc Melenchon: 21.95% Eric Zemmour: (...)
French presidential candidates are meant to have equal access to the airwaves. But the buildup to this month’s election instead shows how unaccountable billionaire media owners can set the political agenda — and promote astroturf far-right candidates.
The specter of media concentration has (...)
The campaign for the presidential elections on 10th and 24th April is a new revelation of the French political crisis. Going by the polls, neither the Parti socialiste nor Les Républicains, the two major parties that have alternated in power under the Fifth Republic, will get more than 10% of (...)
When Emmanuel Macron recently set out his manifesto for next month’s presidential election he adopted both the language and the policies of the mainstream Right. As a result the official right-wing candidate, Valérie Pécresse from the Les Républicains party, has seen her own position on the (...)
The French presidential election looks to once more see a run-off between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Can the Left break through ? And what is the threat of Eric Zemmour ?
With less than three months to go before the presidential election, the campaign is beginning to heat up. It has (...)
With four months to go until the first round of France’s 2022 presidential election, candidates from the main parties are already campaigning hard.
Emmanuel Macron, who has not yet officially announced his candidacy, is giving frequent public speeches to showcase his achievements and underline (...)
During his previous election campaign in 2017 Philippe Poutou caused a stir when he advocated disarming the police. He returned to the question of policing on Wednesday 13 October stating “Yes, there is police violence. The police kill, then we can discuss: assassination, murder, accident, (...)
The scale of protests across France this summer against the policies being deployed to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic is the price being paid by the head of state for his authoritarian, lying and irresponsible presidency, says Mediapart’s publishing editor Edwy Plenel in this op-ed article. Never, (...)
Dave Kellaway continues his analysis of the recent regional elections in France.
The second round of the French regional and departmental elections took place yesterday (Sunday 27June). Only one in three bothered to vote again but the trends highlighted in our previous article have been (...)
We often hear about discontented French voters turning to Marine Le Pen’s far right, but not about the tens of millions who’ve given up on voting at all. They were the key in yesterday’s regional elections — and they’re the ones the Left has to win.
This week’s French regional elections take place (...)
Dave Kellaway reports on the regional elections in France.
France held the first round of the regional elections this Sunday 20th June. According to the initial polling estimates the traditional right-wing party, The Republicans (LR) came out on top ahead of Le Pen’s post-fascist (...)
The French president has imposed a national lockdown, but he still won’t own up to his mistakes and broken promise.
France is in a “race against time” against Covid-19, Emmanuel Macron declared in a television broadcast this week. In an attempt to curb France’s soaring Covid case numbers, Macron (...)
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