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A ‘Titanic’ flop: lacklustre rally turns up the heat on conservative front-runner Valérie Pécresse

Valérie Pécresse’s first major campaign gathering was meant to energise a sputtering presidential bid rattled by defections and self-doubt. Instead, it exposed a key weakness of a conservative candidate ill-suited to the raucous world of campaign rallies.

France 24 · Feb 14, 2022

France's Le Pen suffers high profile defection to rival Zemmour

French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was dealt a fresh blow on Sunday as her party's only senator became the latest member to throw his support behind rival Eric Zemmour ahead of April's election.

Reuters · Feb 13, 2022

Defections sap conservative contender Pécresse in French presidential race

The conservative right-wing challenger to Emmanuel Macron in the looming French presidential vote grappled Friday with a wave of defections, while hoping former president Nicolas Sarkozy would finally offer his full-throated support.

France 24 · Feb 11, 2022

French far-right presidential candidates fight for limelight

France’s dueling far-right presidential candidates are holding back-to-back campaign rallies

The Independent UK · Feb 5, 2022

Protests and tension as far-right French candidates hold rival rallies

Police intervened to break up anti-racism protests ahead of the rally held by far-right wing presidential candidate Eric Zemmour in the northern city of Lille on Saturday, while his rival Marine Le Pen held a meeting for supporters in Reims the same day.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 5, 2022

French far-right presidential candidates compete for limelight with same-day rallies

France’s dueling far-right presidential candidates are holding back-to-back campaign rallies Saturday, trying to steal each other’s thunder and keep their anti-immigration, anti-Islam agenda front and center in the race for the April presidential election.

France 24 · Feb 5, 2022

The French left, the presidential race and the unavoidable

Nothing seems likely to prevent a debacle in April vote for French left that used to dominate France’s politics.

Al Jazeera · Feb 4, 2022

Le Pen's campaign hit by niece calling rival far-right Zemmour a better candidate

Marine Le Pen's niece Marion Marechal, a popular figure among far-right French voters, on Friday said Eric Zemmour was a better presidential candidate, piling woes onto a campaign already troubled by the defection of two EU lawmakers.

Reuters · Jan 28, 2022

A defection reveals Le Pen's Achilles heel: she looks too mainstream

Three months before France's presidential vote, Jerome Riviere made a blunt calculation: Marine Le Pen, long the leader of the traditional far-right, had lost her anti-establishment edge and veered too close to the mainstream to win the election.

Reuters · Jan 27, 2022

Several allies of French far-right candidate Le Pen defect to Zemmour campaign

IN THE PRESS – Monday, January 24: We look at French papers' reactions to members of Marine Le Pen's party joining far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, as well as the website Mediapart's analysis of 1,000 of his earliest supporters. We also discuss coverage of the ongoing crisis between Russia and…

France 24 · Jan 24, 2022