France’s snap parliamentary election is one of the most momentous in decades, for both the country and the rest of Europe. Within two weeks, France could have a hard-left or hard-right government – or ...

Artur Widak/NurPhoto / Reuters France is about to hold parliamentary elections that are shaping up to be among its most divisive in recent history. With the first round on Sunday, the rising ...

Vandalized posters are pasted to a wall in northwestern France ahead of French elections in June 2024. Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government faces a ...

Our live coverage of France’s election has now ended for today. Read our key takeaways write here and browse the posts below to catch up on Monday’s earlier news. President Emmanuel Macron called ...

French voters propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong lead in first-round legislative elections Sunday and plunged the country into political uncertainty, according to polling projections.

Participation was unusually strong as voters headed to the polls for a parliamentary election that could put the country on a new course. Here’s what to watch for. By Aurelien Breeden Reporting from ...

BERLIN — It’s one of the most high-stakes two-round votes in the history of postwar France. At stake is whether Marine Le Pen's National Rally party will gain an absolute majority in the National ...

Polls project far-right win, but may be short of majority Three-way contests fragment vote, seen helping far right Far right says withdrawal of dozens of candidates deprives voters of choice ...

The morning after France’s opening game of Euro 2024, the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) published its latest poll ahead of the country’s legislative election. The top line was that the ...

France is on the cusp of voting in a far-right government for the first time since World War II, as the national mood appears to be souring on President Emmanuel Macron’s brand of mainstream centrism ...

PARIS (AP) — Voting was underway in France on Sunday in pivotal runoff elections that could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and its inward-looking, anti-immigrant ...

Marine Le Pen, the figurehead of the ascendant far-right political movement in France, was hit with a non-custodial prison sentence and barred from running in elections for five years on Monday as a ...