Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Hundreds of candidates from Macron’s camp and the left-wing alliance withdraw in an effort to keep the National Rally out.

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is in a strong position after the first round of voting, but the next 24 hours will be crucial as rivals plot to stop the far right.

The president must decide if his candidates should drop out and back the left to stop the far right winning power in France.

Left-leaning activists gathered in Paris on election night to protest the National Rally win in the snap legislative election.

Emmanuel Macron’s election gamble spectacularly backfired, leaving his centrist alliance trailing the far right and far left.

Voters in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis — home to many immigrants and Muslims — fear the surging far right but also resent Macron’s presidency.

French political circles are openly discussing the possibility of a very Italian option: an emergency government of experts. 

Key figures in the French president’s camp criticized three-time presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s stance on antisemitism and the Israel-Gaza war as having contributed to an environment of insecurity for French Jews.

Global strategic and financial consequences hang on the outcome of the June 30 and July 7 ballot — a complex, two-round process that needs some explanation.

The French president’s remarks on the left’s proposal to facilitate the legal recognition of gender changes at town halls sparked criticism even within his own ranks.

Macron’s weakened coalition could lose almost all its representation in parliament in the legislative elections, strangling his centrist agenda

The French political class is tearing itself apart with feuding and backbiting ahead of this month’s vote.

While a right-wing surge is expected to sweep Europe at the EU election this weekend, the results could have significant political consequences domestically in France.

Slick, disciplined and a hit with young voters, the president of France’s National Rally is remaking the far-right party in his image.

Israel’s war in Gaza stokes European tensions, after clashes erupt between students and cops at American colleges.

“These attacks are the result of months of hatred and slander,” MEP Raphaël Glucksmann said after the incident.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s latest scandal, in which he compared a French university head to a Nazi, has some on the left considering succession plans.

Sciences Po hosted a conference by three-time presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon under tense circumstances.

Social-democratic lead candidate Raphaël Glucksmann doubled down on his hawkish stance on Ukraine as polls show him closing in on the pro-Macron list ahead of the EU election.

Gen Z influencers inspire right-wing leaders like France’s Jordan Bardella ahead of June’s EU election.

A majority of MPs backed the French-Ukrainian security agreement; the vote exposed reservations on aid to Ukraine from parties at both ends of the spectrum.

French president faces blowback across the political spectrum for not ruling out a Western military presence in Ukraine.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused the president of playing “war leader.”

Opposition parties from across the political spectrum banded together against the government.