After storming the first round of France’s regional elections, Marine Le Pen’s far-right party has been humiliated. But all is not lost.
- Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham
The far-right Front National leads after the first round of voting, leaving Hollande and Sarkozy with some thinking to do.
The founder of France’s far-right movement and his daughter, the current president, have had a spectacular and very public falling out.
A radical new system is to bring parity to regional councils.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been re-elected as leader of the opposition party the UMP. His candidacy for the 2017 presidential election is still not certain but his rivals are in a state…
On September 28, 179 new members were elected to the 348 seats in the French senate. Gérard Larcher, a member of the centre-right UMP party, was chosen as the senate président, or speaker. Even though…
As if the French president, François Hollande, didn’t have enough woes, elections for the senate have dealt him another blow. Three years after Hollande’s socialists won the first ever majority for the…
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