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Newly elected lawmakers at the French National Assembly are starting talks seeking to cobble together a government majority after a chaotic election result left the legislature split among left, cente
While an alliance of leftist parties came in first, with more than 180 seats, it is politically divided and needs 100 additional seats for a majority.
While the arduous task of unifying diverse political factions now begins, it is clear that France has managed to contain the rise of extreme right-wing forces at least for the moment. France had a great example of whom not to follow: the United States.
French political leaders from the left-wing bloc that came first in Sunday's legislative election said they intended to govern according to their high-spending programme, but centrists said they should play a role as the left lacked a majority.
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
The left and center in France came up with a swift strategy to defeat far-right extremists. Americans must do the same.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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",
Leaders from the left-wing bloc that came first in France's legislative election and the runner-up centrists have engaged in a frenzied race to be first to cobble together a viable government, lawmakers and other sources told Reuters.
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.
Marine Le Pen has not yet commented on the probe, announced two days after her party came third in France's legislative election.
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,
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,
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
The snap election produced a National Assembly that ranks among the most ideologically fractured parliaments in the country’s modern history.
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.
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 leftist New Popular Front secured the most seats in the National Assembly, delivering a rebuke to France's far-right bloc.
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.
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The snap elections yielded a surprising defeat for France’s far right—and a new set of problems for Macron to contend with.
Election results show French voters have chosen to give a broad leftist coalition the most parliamentary seats in pivotal legislative elections, keeping the far right away from power. Yet no party won an outright majority,
For the past month, up until Sunday’s parliamentary election, most French voters had been dreading the predicted victory of the far-right National Rally party. But then—in stark contrast to Americans who claim to be alarmed by the return of Donald Trump—they actually did something to prevent it.
President Macron’s gamble in fighting the far right has to be declared, if not a success, at least not an absolute failure.
George Gibbs Political Economy Chair Veronique De Rugy joins Stuart Varney and Lauren Simonetti to discuss political turmoil in France after elections show no clear majority in the country.
France’s Socialist party extended an olive branch to some lawmakers of Emmanuel Macron’s movement as political jockeying gained steam in the aftermath of a messy vote that left parliament divided.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon led his coalition to a narrow victory in elections. But even some of his allies bristle at the thought of the combative former Trotskyist becoming prime minister.
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.
Marine Le Pen would finish in front in the first round of the next French presidential election in 2027, even though her far-right National Rally fell to third place in Sunday’s legislative ballot, according to a poll carried out after voting had ended.
The French election results point to a prolonged political logjam, which may not help a country bedeviled by high debt and slowing economic growth.
Fox News London-based correspondent Alex Hogan reports on the country’s state of shock and French President Emmanuel Macron’s weakened position on 'Special Report.'
Far from producing clarity, the snap election called by President Emmanuel Macron of France has yielded a muddle that could take months to sort out.
France faces complicated months ahead. French voters rejected a country dominated by the far right, but they now face a Parliament that is split and has an unclear path to a worka