PARIS — The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election have the populist, anti-immigration ...

Voters are getting ready to the head to the polls in the first round of the 2024 French legislative elections. President Macron called a snap vote after his party suffered a big loss in European ...

His aim was to regain control of French politics, but that’s not what the opinion polls say will happen. Mr Macron had no need to call National Assembly elections for another three years.

The deadline for declarations in the French elections ended Tuesday, with large numbers of left and centre candidates standing aside in order to try to block the far-right National Rally (RN).

In the EU elections last Sunday, Le Pen’s National Rally got 32% of the French votes, more than twice as many as Macron’s Renaissance. Even before the final results were in from all of the 27 ...

Le Pen, who lost the presidency to Macron in 2017 and 2022, said French voters had shown a clear ... due mainly to the large number of three-way runoff elections resulting from high voter turnout.

France’s second round of legislative elections Sunday delivered a surprise victory to Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s hard-left “New Popular Front” (NFP), which came in first in the seat count.

More than half of French people believe the current democratic ... Blaming the new political landscape – following a general election this summer that produced no clear winner – a staggering ...

but I wanted to secure my right to vote in French elections or perhaps move elsewhere in the EU later in life. It took me another three years to meet the residency requirements for citizenship.

I Don’t Know Who Will Win, But I Do Know There’s Nothing You Can Do Now about It Except Vote How Immigrants Redistribute Political Power — Without Voting Rita Marker, the Great Anti-Assisted ...

Last but not least, in Poland, centre-right Prime Minister Donald Tusk focused on the foreign policy side of the French elections: “In Paris enthusiasm, in Moscow disappointment, in Kyiv relief ...

That snap election was prompted by President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial decision to dissolve parliament. Newly appointed French prime minister Michel Barnier faces criticism as he tries to ...