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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.
« The public rejected Macronism in the first round of the legislative elections, and the RN in the second. Now they are getting both. »
When Michel Barnier’s appointment as Prime Minister was announced on 5 September, many French voters experienced two simultaneous sensations which say a lot (…)
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has at last appointed a prime minister to break France’s political deadlock. In doing so he has handed the far right a major win.
The survival of Michel Barnier’s future government depends on the goodwill of the National Rally, the far-right party of (…)
Emmanuel Macron has appointed Michel Barnier as France’s prime minister, after securing Marine Le Pen’s agreement. The creation of a government reliant on her blessing is another step in the far right’s march toward power.
Michel Barnier during a speech at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, France, (…)
Michel Barnier, 73, the former European Union commissioner and Brexit negotiator, a member of France’s conservative Les Républicains party, was on Thursday appointed by President Emmanuel Macron as the country’s new prime minister. The move came after several days of discussions between Macron (…)
Tempest interviews Sylvestre Jaffard, member of the NPA-l’Anticapitaliste, about the French elections last month, their political impact on both the right and Left, and the prospects going forward.
Tempest: Given the success of the far right in the European elections, and how quickly the (…)
Pablo Stefanoni is a journalist, editor and author of ¿La rebeldía se volvió de derechas? (Has Rebellion Become a Thing of the Right?). Currently based in Paris, he spoke to Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal about the recent European and French elections — in (…)
What are the results of the parliamentary elections in France on 7 July 2024?
In the second round of France’s parliamentary elections on 7 July 2024, the National Rally (Rassemblement National -RN-) suffered a political defeat, even though it increased its number of MPs. The wager of the (…)
The Nouveau Front populaire (New Popular Front), a coalition built in just a few days by the left-wing parties (whereas they remained splintered at the recent European parliamentary elections), has just won 182 deputy seats in the French National Assembly, beating the Rassemblement national (RN) (…)
The French election was meant to bring victory for Marine Le Pen’s far right. But the New Popular Front rallied around a left-wing program for social change — allowing it to become the biggest force in the new National Assembly.
There is nothing inevitable about the rise of the far right, (…)
France’s establishment increasingly presents “Islamo-leftists” as the number one source of antisemitism while whitewashing the far right. A French Jewish activist explains why it is dangerous to counterpose the defense of Jews to that of other minorities.
he first round of France’s snap (…)
The far right is on the brink of an absolute majority following the first round of early parliamentary elections in France.
Whatever the absurd scenario imagined by Macron in announcing of the dissolution of the Assembly on the evening of the European elections, the practical effect is (…)
France’s president called snap elections to show the country was still behind him. It backfired massively — and last night’s first-round results suggest Marine Le Pen’s far right will dominate the new parliament.
The page is turning on Emmanuel Macron. After France went to the polls for the (…)
A collapse in support for the centre-right camp of President Emmanuel Macron, a stronger leftwing alliance and a potentially game-changing breakthrough by the far-right Rassemblement National ... as voters head for the ballot box today for the first round of what is both an uncertain and an (…)
The manifesto launch for Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National showed how far the party has dropped its welfarist promises. The far right is vaunting its pro-business credentials — and part of France’s corporate elite is warming to its message.
French finance minister Bruno Le Maire recently (…)
More than 150 trade unionists, social movement activists and alternative leftists are responding to the call for a New Popular Front and calling for grassroots involvement to push back the far right and go further in the rupture and the alternative.
We, trade unionists, activists from social (…)
Having called a snap election, the French president quickly nailed his colours to the mast. The far-right Rassemblement National is preferable to the leftwing New Popular Front: that is the underlying message of Emmanuel Macron’s slanderous attack - supported by his allies - against the union of (…)
France’s snap elections are widely seen as an opportunity for Marine Le Pen’s far right. But the left-wing parties’ Nouveau Front Populaire has a real possibility of stopping her — and it’s laid out a radical program to rebuild France’s dilapidated democracy.
Manuel Bompard of La France (…)
The decision by President Emmanuel Macron to hold snap legislative elections in four weeks’ time, a move taken on Sunday immediately after the landslide victory of the French far-right in European Parliament elections, has had the effect of a political bombshell. Not least because it now appears (…)
After his allies scored just 15% in the European elections, last night Emmanuel Macron called a snap election for the French parliament. It’ll pave the way for a new government — and it could raise Marine Le Pen’s party to power for the first time.
Rassemblement National party leader Marine (…)
Following the huge success of the French far-right Rassemblement National party (the former Front National) in the polling on Sunday to elect members to the new assembly of the European Parliament, President Emmanuel Macron has called a surprise snap election of France’s national parliament, (…)
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