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Macron’s credibility on the line amid protests over pension changes

President’s centrist group is without a majority as parliament begins debating proposal to raise retirement age to 64

The Guardian - UK

French cabinet to consider 'balanced' immigration legislation

With plans for the expulsion of "delinquent foreigners," the overhaul of France's asylum system, and an effort to bring some undocumented workers in from the cold, the French government's latest immigration bill will be presented to the cabinet this week.

Radio France Internationale

France's conservative Républicains elect new leader to revive political fortunes

France's right-wing Les Républicans party have elected arch-conservative Eric Ciotti as their new leader in the hope he can revive their dim electoral prospects.

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French government to use constitutional powers to force through budget

President accused of authoritarianism as PM puts end to days of heated parliamentary debate

The Guardian - UK

Welcome to Versailles, city of Molière, cycle paths and new money

François de Mazières, Versailles’s mayor since 2008, is a big fan of bicycles and architecture. He was re-elected for a third term in 2020, as an independent on a ‘divers droite’ (miscellaneous rightwing) ticket. He’s leading a crusade against ugliness in the city’s built environment and against its rightwing reputation

Radio France Internationale

French right under fire for claims poor parents blowing school equipment cash

MPs from Les Républicains party had submitted bill to ‘combat fraud’ on back-to-school grants to low-income households

The Guardian - UK

Cops, cleaners, Kevins: Fresh faces take a seat in France's National Assembly

France's new slate of lower-house lawmakers sit in the National Assembly for the first time on Tuesday to open the 16th Legislature. An astonishing surge of far-right and leftist winners in elections this month not only deprived centre-right Emmanuel Macron of an absolute legislative majority, it also provided some of…

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After losing the majority, can Macron strike a deal with opposition parties?

In his first public remarks since parliamentary elections deprived his governing coalition of a majority, French President Emmanuel Macron called on France’s reinvigorated opposition blocs to come up with solutions to the political impasse in a televised address on Wednesday. But opposition forces on both the left and right have…

France 24

Left surges in French elections

Macron in trouble: Jean-Luc Mélenchon's leftist coalition made major gains, as did Marine Le Pen's far-right party

Salon

Macron turns to coalition-building after losing majority in parliamentary elections

French President Emmanuel Macron and his allies are trying to cobble together a working coalition after his centrist alliance lost its majority in legislative elections, raising the prospect of a prolonged political impasse. Macron will hold talks Tuesday and Wednesday at the Élysée Palace with representatives from the leading parties.

France 24

Macron has been sent tumbling to Earth – now he’ll have to learn to compromise

France’s ‘Jupiterian’ president has no majority in the assembly, and no clear way forward, says political analyst Mujtaba Rahman

The Guardian - UK

Macron stripped of majority after crushing blow in parliamentary elections

Allies of French President Emmanuel Macron started working Monday to cobble together a working parliamentary majority to salvage his second term, after his alliance crumbled in the election against surges from the left and far-right.

France 24

‘A seismic event’: Le Pen’s party makes historic breakthrough in French parliament

Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally, or RN) made historic gains in Sunday’s French parliamentary election second round, on track to win 90 seats according to projections by Ipsos – a score way beyond the record gains polls predicted. Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc, meanwhile, underperformed polling expectations and…

France 24

Macron’s centrists could lose control as leftwingers rise in parliament election

President faces a messy scramble if he cannot achieve absolute majority in second round of elections

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Takeaways from the first round of France’s parliamentary elections

French voters went to the polls Sunday in the first round of parliamentary elections, with all 577 National Assembly seats at play. The left-wing NUPES coalition came out neck and neck with Emmanuel Macron’s presidential group, while Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and the right-wing Républicains trail behind. Here are…

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Will ‘drifting’ Macron need conservatives to save his majority?

The French parliamentary elections' first round on Sunday put Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Ensemble group barely ahead of the leftist coalition NUPES under firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon – a disappointing result for the freshly re-elected president. But Macron’s centrist alliance is expected to get a second-round boost as swing voters rally to…

France 24

France’s conservatives torn over Macron’s ‘siren call’ before parliamentary polls

France’s traditional conservative party Les Républicains (LR) was humiliated in last month’s presidential elections, squeezed between the biggest voting blocs on the centre right and far right. Now LR’s leading figures are rowing over the prospect of joining forces with Emmanuel Macron as the president is expected to maintain his…

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Le Pen, Mélenchon want ‘third round’ win – but Macron favoured to win parliamentary majority

The French presidential election results on April 26 gave Emmanuel Macron a comfortable victory – setting the stage for the “third round”, as many in France call the parliamentary polls taking place on June 12 and 19. Macron’s populist adversaries are keen to seize control of parliament and scupper his…

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What’s in Emmanuel Macron’s intray after his re-election as French president?

Macron faces a second term at least as challenging as his first, if not more so

France 24

Why Macron will need to work his socks off to beat Le Pen this time

French President Emmanuel Macron improved on his 2017 score in Sunday’s first round of the presidential election. But he goes into the April 24 run-off with a starkly diminished reservoir of votes in what large swaths of the country have come to see as a choice of “the lesser of…

The Conversation

French election: as Marine Le Pen makes it to second round, the left-wing vote is what troubles president Emmanuel Macron

After the first round of the 2017 presidential election in France, economist Thomas Piketty suggested that while there were four candidates on very close scores at the head of the field (Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, François Fillon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon), in reality France was divided into three political camps:…

The Conversation

First round of the French election: apparent stability, yet a profound reconfiguration

With the majority of the ballots counted on Monday morning, the official results of the first round of the French presidential election appear to confirm the power dynamics at work from the previous election.

France 24

France's presidential election rematch is no replay as Macron, Le Pen eye suspenseful final duel

France is poised for a rematch of the 2017 presidential election run-off with centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen once again advancing to the final after first-round voting on Sunday. But the 2022 race has so far been anything but a replay of the contest Macron won…

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Will French presidential election be a case of 'plus ca change, moins ca change?' -- 5 things to watch as nation heads to the poll

With polls suggesting a narrowing gap among the front-runners, French voters will begin the two-stage process of choosing a president on April 10, 2022.

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French election: who are the candidates running against Emmanuel Macron?

On April 10, 48 million French will be asked to vote in the first round of France’s 2022 presidential election. Of the 12 candidates, only two will qualify for the second-round runoff taking place on April 24. These are the candidates in the running.

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