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Sports celebrities and culture industry leaders rally behind Macron

Dozens of sports personalities and culture industry leaders have signed opinion pieces that appeared in the French press this week calling on undecided voters to throw their support behind the incumbent president Emmanuel Macron as he gears up to face the run-off poll against Marine Le Pen on 24 April.

Radio France Internationale

Now the right wants to claim Ukraine

At global gathering of right-wing nationalists, a startling pivot: Putin's toast — and wow, do they love Ukraine

Salon

Cheeky TV Show Becomes Battleground in French Election Race

A French television news and entertainment show that has long delighted in poking fun at Marine Le Pen and her father has become a battleground in the far-right leader's election contest with President Emmanuel Macron. After Le Pen said she is excluding reporters from the primetime program "Quotidien” from her…

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Pension reform becomes hot topic as French presidential hopefuls head for run-off

After Sunday's vote placed him in a tighter-than-expected run-off contest with his closest rival Marine Le Pen, French incumbent Emmanuel Macron is trying to persuade voters to keep him in the Élysée Palace. Macron has signalled that he is ready to walk back his pension reform plan, suggesting he may…

France 24

Cheeky TV show becomes battleground in French election race

A French primetime television show that has long delighted in poking fun at Marine Le Pen has become a battleground in the far-right leader’s fierce contest with incumbent Emmanuel Macron for the French presidency

The Independent UK

Marine Le Pen has secret plan to take France out of European Union, says Macron

Marine Le Pen has a secret plan to follow Britain out of the European Union and create a Right-wing alliance with Poland and Hungary, according to French president Emmanuel Macron.

Evening Standard

Copying the far right doesn’t help mainstream parties. But it can boost the far right

Does fighting on the radical right’s turf help to steal its voters? Our research suggests it doesn’t, say Werner Krause, Denis Cohen and Tarik Abou-Chadi

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Mélenchon turns kingmaker as Macron and Le Pen pitch for his left-wing votes

Veteran leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon lost out on a place in France’s presidential election run-off, but his 7,714,574 votes have made him the strongest force on the Left. Where those votes go will likely determine whether incumbent Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen becomes president.

Radio France Internationale

Far-right Le Pen campaigns as French 'voice of the people'

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen is envisioning a France with the people’s voices at the center of the political process if she gets elected president in 12 days

The Independent UK

French elections: a divided country faces an uncertain second round

The first round of the French election took place on April 10, and predictably it did nothing to resurrect old-school parliamentarism, five years after Emmanuel Macron first burst into the country’s fragile party system.

The Conversation

Poverty, education levels draw battle lines in French election

As French President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen head into a presidential run-off on April 24 promising to tackle high inflation, an analysis of first-round voting data shows the far-right challenger with an edge in low-income areas hardest hit by soaring costs.

Reuters

Marine Le Pen: can the right-wing ‘wolf’ really pull off a moderate rebrand?

She’s closing in on the French president, with insiders saying this month’s election could be her third time lucky. From her traumatic upbringing to her complicated relationship with her father, Katie Strick charts the rise of the right-wing candidate known as MLP

Evening Standard

How Zemmour’s storm in a teacup hijacked French campaign – and helped Le Pen

After dominating the airwaves in the early stages of the campaign, France’s extreme-right candidate Éric Zemmour saw his presidential run falter in the home stretch. His lowly 7.1 percent tally in Sunday's first round shut him out of the April 24 run-off. But his outsized influence on the campaign could…

France 24

Analysis-Eyeing win, inflation debate gives Le Pen chance to lay Russia ghosts to rest

In a rural town south of Paris, far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen delivered a simple message to local farmers: Russia's war in Ukraine means the price of feed, fertiliser and staple goods will keep rising unless the French government acts.

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Radio France Internationale

Africans not surprised by Macron, Le Pen run-off

Most Africans living in France and on the continent are not surprised by the results of the first round of the French presidential elections. A good many hold no illusions of radical change in French foreign policy towards Africa.

Radio France Internationale

What might a Le Pen presidency mean for the future of the European Union?

As it became clear on Sunday evening that Marine Le Pen will face incumbent Emmanuel Macron in the second round of France's presidential election, the European Union and NATO are coming to terms with the possibility of a Euroskeptic leader in the Elysée Palace - one who has been a…

France 24

Macron softens on controversial pension reform as he heads into tight run-off

Facing a tight run-off against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen on April 24, French President Emmanuel Macron softened his stance Monday on overhauling the pension system and raising the retirement age – reform proposals that sparked mass protests during his first term.

Reuters

Poll shows gap between Le Pen, Macron as turnout is seen at historic low

(Corrects headline to show turnout, not abstention, is seen at historic low)

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The Independent UK

Potential far-right victory for Le Pen in France’s election race viewed as a threat to the EU

Victory for Marine Le Pen in France's presidential election would have immense repercussions for the bloc

France 24

France's former president Sarkozy endorses Macron, touting 'experience'

France's conservative former president Nicolas Sarkozy threw his support behind Emmanuel Macron in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, touting Macron's experience in the face of the "grave international crisis" in Ukraine. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, for her part, said she had no plans to pull France out of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

France's Le Pen Says She Has No 'Secret Agenda' to Exit EU

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Tuesday said she had no "secret agenda" for France to leave the European Union, even if her attempts to reform the bloc fail. "I don't have a secret agenda," Le Pen told France Inter radio. "I think a large majority of French…

Reuters

Macron's offer to soften pension reform is 'manoeuvre' to seduce left-wing voters - Le Pen

Emmanuel Macron's offer to soften planned pension reforms is a "manoeuvre" to lure voters ahead of the second round of France's presidential election, but he would still execute the original plans if re-elected, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen said.

Axios

What to watch as Macron and Le Pen compete for French presidency

The gap between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the election's first round was larger than it was in 2017.

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 Guardian - UK

Mélenchon fans in his bastion north of Paris weigh up their options

With the leftist out of the race, voters in Seine-Saint-Denis favour Macron over Le Pen, who is too extreme for many

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