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France staved off a parliamentary takeover by the far right. Now it has to assemble a coalition in a landscape where “compromise” is a dirty word.
France's leftist coalition emerged as the surprising victor July 7 after the second round of voting in legislative elections.
President Emmanuel Macron may have seen off the threat of France's far right, but he now faces a frustrating final three years in office after gambling away much of his political power in an election that has left France with a chaotic hung parliament.
France's left has a Jean-Luc Mélenchon problem. The towering firebrand of France's hard-left, Melenchon's France Unbowed (LFI) party won the most seats of the leftist alliance that scored a shock victory over the far right in Sunday's snap legislative election.
Instead of ushering in France’s first far-right government since World War II, voters boosted the left and the center. But France may now face political paralysis.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal entered President Emmanuel Macron's office on Monday to tender his resignation after parliamentary elections in which the government's political camp lost its role as the strongest party to the left in a hung parliament.
France has a divided parliament after Sunday's election. With the Paris 2024 Olympics fast approaching, it could take months to form a coalition government.
The New Popular Front wants to lower France’s retirement age and vastly expand government spending on social welfare, environmental protection and health care.
France will have a hung parliament after Sunday's parliamentary election, making it necessary for political leaders to figure out a path forward and potentially form a governing coalition, something seen as uncharted territory in French politics.
The leader of France's Socialist party, Olivier Faure, has thrown his hat in the ring to be prime minister, after the left-wing alliance to which he belongs won Sunday's parliamentary election. He said he was "ready to assume this function",
The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.
French Vote Splits Among Left, Center and Far-Right. With No Majority, Political Paralysis Threatens
French voters split their parliament into left, center and far-right, leaving the country with the stunning prospect of a deadlocked parliament and political paralysis
Keeping Marine Le Pen’s far right party from power in the French legislative election is one thing. How this new unwieldy and misshapen parliament will govern, is another, writes Marie Le Conte.
The Paris prosecutor’s office says it opened a preliminary investigation last week into suspicions of illicit financing of far-right French leader Marine Le Pen’s campaign during the 2022 presidential
France faced a hung parliament and the prospect of taxing negotiations starting Monday to form a government, after a surprise left-wing surge blocked Marine Le Pen's quest to bring the far right to power.
Marine Le Pen has not yet commented on the probe, announced two days after her party came third in France's legislative election.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen appeared to be nearer to power than ever last week after her National Rally party triumphed in the opening round of legislative elections
Supporters of the French far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally - RN) party react after partial results in the second round of the early French parliamentary elections, at the RN in Paris, France,
The Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday it had launched a preliminary probe into allegations of illegal financing of far right National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen's campaign for the 2022 presidential race,
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has announced he will resign after a broad left-leaning coalition took the most seats in Sunday’s snap parliamentary election
France's left-wing New Popular Front (NFP), an alliance of parties hastily assembled after President Emmanuel Macron called a surprise snap parliamentary election, looked set to score a shock win in Sunday's vote over the far right and the ruling centrists.
Former Socialist President Francois Hollande and other newly elected lawmakers from the leftist coalition made a grand entrance Tuesday at the National Assembly for talks seeking to cobble together a government after chaotic voting results left them with the most seats,
By Estelle Shirbon and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -French political leaders from the left-wing bloc that came first in Sunday's legislative election said they intended to govern according to their tax-and-spend programme,
The drama and vitriol of France’s sudden summer election is over. Now comes the drama and vitriol of stage two - and what could be a much longer and equally agitated struggle to build a functional coalition out of the inconclusive results of Saturday’s vote.
French stocks fell as investors assessed risks from political gridlock following legislative elections that produced a divided parliament with no clear majority.
A shock election win for France's leftist alliance has reinforced wariness among investors who had already braced for the risk of political deadlock and a policy paralysis that's unlikely to improve the country's creaking public finances.
If politicians want to defeat the far-right, they should steer clear of the French President's approach—and look to the left instead.
Mr Attal, who led the president's Ensemble alliance's election campaign, handed his resignation to Mr Macron on Monday, only for the president to refuse. Although Ensemble lost many of its seats in Sunday's parliament election,
The French left said it wanted to run the government but conceded on Monday that talks would be tough and take time, after Sunday's election thwarted the far right's quest for power but delivered a hung parliament.
After rollercoaster-like parliamentary elections, the French film and TV industry has expressed relief over the far right’s defeat. Predictions had pointed to a triumph from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally based on the first round’s results,
French voters had, once again, kept the far right out of power. On Monday morning, incertitude: A hung parliament, shaky alliances and the threat of turbulent years ahead.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday he was "relieved" that the eurosceptic far right failed to win a snap election in top ally France, noting Berlin should be able to keep working with Paris to motor the European Union.
The snap election produced a National Assembly that ranks among the most ideologically fractured parliaments in the country’s modern history.
Several France players are already celebrating something at the European Championship — the result of the elections back home. A leftist coalition that came together to try to keep the far right from power in France won the most parliamentary seats in Sunday’s runoff parliamentary election.
BFMTV shared a split screen showing, on the left, what it described as an “explosion of joy” at a New Popular Front election event in Paris. On the right, National Rally supporters at a nearby party appeared to be simply stunned.
The New Popular Front won the biggest share of the National Assembly but fell far short of a majority, raising the specter of a hung parliament.
France’s election results, in which a coalition of left-wing and centrist parties staved off the insurgent rise of the far right, are being celebrated around the world—from politicians, like U.S. Sen.
Many of France's allies breathed a sigh of relief on Monday after Marine Le Pen's far-right failed to win a snap election, but they noted that a messy coalition from a hung parliament could also pose headaches for Europe.
French President Emmanuel Macron rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal Monday, in the wake of a chaotic election result that left neither left, right, nor center with a majority in the National Assembly.
France's parliament is split among far-left, center and far-right, as no single political faction came close to the majority needed to form a government.
The far-right National Rally were beaten into third place on Sunday after winning France's first round of parliamentary voting.
French stocks rose while government bonds fell in early trading after a party alliance led by the far-left emerged first in the country’s parliamentary elections, pushing France toward political paralysis.
France faced a hung parliament and difficult negotiations starting Monday to form a government, after a surprise left-wing surge blocked Marine Le Pen's quest to bring the far right to power. The leftist New Popular Front (NFP) emerged as the dominant force in the National Assembly after Sunday's election,
President Emmanuel Macron refused the resignation of France’s prime minister, asking him on Monday to remain temporarily as the head of the government after a chaotic election result left the government in limbo.