The new legislature appears shorn of such stability. When Macron flies to Washington fora summit this week of the NATO alliance, he will leave a country with no clear idea who may be its next prime minister and facing the prospect that the president may be obliged to share power with a po...
▶ Read more about what’s next 上午6:10 GMT+8 Midnight in Paris By The Associated Press Share Midnight has passed in mainland France. Welcome to a new day. We await the final election results. Speaking of suspense, a glance at the Paris Olympics countdown clock shows less than ...
Presidential Majority (UMP), decisively putting downJean-Marie Le Penof the far-right National Front, who had surprised many with his strong showing in the first round of balloting. The UMP retained control of the presidency and the government following the 2007 election ofNicolas Sarkozy, but ...
How France's Presidential Election Could Impact Ukraine War PARIS — The capital of France may be thousands of miles from the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, but what happens in French voting stations this month could have repercussions there. Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has clo...
What can only seem the irresistible self-destruction of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has already produced fundamental and irreversible consequences in French party-political affairs, in the presidential campaign that next spring will give France a new president or confirm the succession of the present one ...
France Elections: Macron Next President? Financial Elitism and Far-Right Advance to Runoff April 23, 2017 France’s Election at Gunpoint April 23, 2017 Breaking: French Presidential Election: Macron and Le Pen in Run-Off? April 21, 2017 ...
The article suggests the significance of François Hollande's victory in the presidential election for France's creditworthiness and European policymaking. It was noted that Hollande is a pragmatist by nature, and his centre-left economic programme is a far cry from the let-it-rip-socialism ...
A far-right government, or gridlock, may be next Two outcomes seem most likely. Only National Rally appears in a position to secure enough seats for an absolute majority. If it does, Macron will have no other choice than to appoint Bardella prime minister. He would then form a...
Second round voting Leaders of both the leftwing New Popular Front and Macron's Renaissance party made clear on Sunday night they would withdraw their own candidates in hundreds of districts where another candidate was better placed to beat the RN in next Sunday's runoff. ...
(Comité National Français), for which he boldly claimed the status of a legal government-in-exile. During the next three years, first in London and then (after 1943) in Algiers, he insisted on his right to speak for France and on France’s right to be heard as a Great Power in ...