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Malaysian leaders kick off election campaigns in tight race

Malaysian political leaders began their election campaigning on Saturday for what is set to be a close race, with incumbent Prime Minister Ismail Sabri facing off with veterans Anwar Ibrahim and Muhyiddin Yassin.

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Le Pen's 'general' tipped to take over French far-right party, eyes EU polls

Marine Le Pen still has her eyes on winning France's presidency, but a 27-year old loyalist from a tough working class neighbourhood is their far-right party's rising star and he has big ambitions that also extend to the European stage.

Reuters

How far has France’s far-right National Rally come in 50 years?

As Marine Le Pen’s far-right movement marks 50 years in French politics, RFI looks back at how the National Rally – formerly the National Front – went from a fringe group to France’s single biggest opposition party.

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National Rally marks 50th anniversary with symposium on far-right 'victories'

France's far-right National Rally is marking the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the party – formerly known as the National Front – by hosting a symposium on the 'victories' the movement has enjoyed over the past five decades.

Radio France Internationale

Jason Isaacs' terror-filled teenage years being terrorised and beaten by fascists

Mrs Harris Goes To Paris star Jason Isaacs overcame growing up in a difficult environment, with far-right activists targeting his Jewish family, to become one of the most recognisable faces in British acting

Daily Mirror

‘Hate is easy’: how a former fascist flipped sides and took down BNP

Safe houses, spy rings, murder plots… Matthew Collins’ life as a far-right extremist sounds like a TV thriller, and now it is one

The Guardian - UK

‘If there are death threats, don’t tell me’ – how Rock Against Racism fought fascism

In the 1970s, the National Front were on the march. So Britain’s music fans and artists united. As a new show celebrates RAR’s achievements, we examine its impact, its legacy – and its thrilling, shambolic climactic concert

The Guardian - UK

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Malaysia's imprisoned ex-PM Najib was once a political star

Najib Razak is Malaysia’s first former prime minister to go to prison -- a mighty fall for a veteran British-educated politician whose father and uncle were the country’s second and third prime ministers, respectively

The Independent UK

Hollywood superstar stood for election in Moss Side just weeks after winning Oscar

Vanessa Redgrave represented the Workers Revolutionary Party in the 1978 Moss Side by-election, but got less than 400 votes

Manchester Evening News

Scots far-right thug carved 'fat' into victim with knife before violent rape

Michael Coyle stood for election to Westminster as the BNP candidate in Glasgow South in 2010, and as a National Front MSP candidate for Linlithgow.

Daily Record

20 years of Love Music Hate Racism: ‘This campaign is more important than ever’

Set up in 2002 to combat the BNP, the volunteers and musicians behind LMHR explain how they’re still uniting people against fascism through the power of music

Evening Standard

Remembering Glasgow’s rally against fascism in the 70s that saw more than 500 on the streets

As the National Front was gaining momentum, anti-fascists in Glasgow took to the streets to oppose the rising political party.

Glasgow Live

Prizes abound for Le Pen's far right in historic French legislative elections

The duel between Emmanuel Macron's incumbent majority and Jean-Luc Mélenchon's pan-leftist NUPES coalition duly dominated the spotlight on Sunday after the first round of France's legislative elections. But far-right National Rally flagbearer Marine Le Pen had a red-letter night at the ballot box. Even at the low end of seat…

France 24

Far right National Rally on course to form 'large' parliamentary group

France’s National Rally party (RN) came third in the first round of legislative elections on Sunday. Ahead in 108 of the 577 constituencies, the party’s performance gives weight to leader Marine Le Pen’s hopes to form a parliamentary group for the first time since 1986.

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Chris Kamara: ‘People say ‘Unbelievable, Jeff!’ every day but I don’t mind. I’m a people person’

As he leaves Soccer Saturday after 24 years and deals with a debilitating speech disorder, the garrulous broadcaster’s reflections on a long career in football reveal his more serious side

The Guardian - UK

Met police chiefs decided not to infiltrate far-right groups in 70s, hears inquiry

Police unit known to have spied on anti-fascists believed it would be ‘difficult’ to place undercover officers

The Independent UK

Local elections 2022: Far-right parties and conspiracy theorists ‘roundly rejected’ at polls

Little support for parties including For Britain and the National Front, or new conspiracy theorist groups

France 24

French far-right rivals Le Pen, Zemmour settle scores after bitter presidential race

Despite competing with a newcomer candidate for the far-right vote, Marine Le Pen once again made it to the final round of France’s presidential election. But Le Pen is now looking to vanquish pundit-turned-candidate Éric Zemmour – as well as even the score with allies who left her camp to…

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The French left’s ‘ouf!’ of relief masks the truth: this was no victory for Macron

The awful reality is that the far right remains perilously close to power – and my country has a president that no one trusts, says French journalist Pauline Bock

Reuters

Down but not out: France's Le Pen vows to fight on

Marine Le Pen brought the far-right from fringe status into the mainstream in a decade and, unbowed by her third failed bid for the presidency, she promised on Sunday to keep up the fight against Emmanuel Macron as she turns her attention to June's parliamentary vote.

The Independent UK

France's presidential rivals: Key moments, private lives

Voters are choosing between two visions of France and two very different people in Sunday's presidential runoff

France 24

Marine Le Pen: A political animal vying to win the Élysée Palace

Marine Le Pen has worked for years at polishing the rough edges of the far-right National Rally, the party her rabble-rousing father Jean-Marie founded a half-century ago as the National Front, seeking the breakthrough that would finally secure the French presidency. For all her efforts, after eight attempts – Le…

The Independent UK

Russia's Navalny accuses Le Pen of Kremlin ties before vote

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny waded into France’s tight presidential campaign, urging voters to back incumbent Emmanuel Macron in Sunday's runoff and alleging that far-right challenger Marine Le Pen is too closely linked to Russia

France 24

On This Day in 2002: Doomed Socialist favourite laughs off threat of Le Pen in presidential final

Any presidential campaign has its emblematic moments that change the course of the race, be they breathtaking instant tide-turners or incidents laden with meaning only in hindsight. With French voters set to elect a president on April 24, FRANCE 24 looks back at telling moments from campaigns past. In the…

Reuters

'Neither Macron nor Le Pen', the rallying cry of disillusioned French students

French students protested outside the Sorbonne in Paris and other universities on Thursday, expressing their disillusionment with the choice on offer at the presidential election, shouting "Neither Macron nor Le Pen".

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