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French President-elect Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with supporters after a ceremony commemorating the abolition of slavery, in Paris. (Photo: AP)

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After the new president, new face for France's parliament

The average age of the candidates who made the cut is 46 compared to 60 for the outgoing assembly.

12 May 2017 12:24 PM IST

French Far-right leader presidential candidate Marine Le Pen (Photo: AP)

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Le Pen could win in France, warns Prez Hollande

Le Pen has vowed to ditch the euro as France's currency and hold a referendum on the country's membership of the EU, if...

6 March 2017 2:33 PM IST

$Head of French far-right Rassemblement National (RN) parliamentary group at the National Assembly Marine Le Pen (R) RN spokesman Sebastien Chenu (L) and Les Republicains (LR) right-wing party president Eric Ciotti attend a press conference of RN president to present the priorities of the \national unity government\ in case the score of the party in the snap parliamentary vote gives it a shot at naming a Prime minister, in Paris on June 24, 2024. The president surprised the country by dissolving parliament after the far right trounced his centrist party in EU Parliament elections earlier this month. (Photo by Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)$ Opinion

Indranil Banerjie | As Europe swings right, extremism is on the rise

The price for the European leadership's decisions is being paid by its ordinary citizens, especially the working class.

28 Jun 2024 12:13 AM IST

French MP of left wing party La France Insoumise (LFI) Manuel Bompard (C), flanked by French MP of left wing party La France Insoumise (LFI) Mathilde Panot (L), addresses media as he arrives at the left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) party headquarters in Paris on July 8, 2024, a day after the second round of Frances legislative election. French President on July 8, 2024 was to start efforts to extract France from its most severe political uncertainty in decades after the left defeated the far right in elections with no group winning an absolute majority. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)

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AA Edit | France is in turmoil, caught between hard Left, Far Right

President Macron's Gamble Yields Quirky Results: Left-Wing Coalition Emerges Strongest, Far Right Pushed to Third Place

9 July 2024 12:05 AM IST