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The French president’s exciting new philosophy is to be neither right or left. In practice, that really just means reinforcing the status quo.
France has been living under a a state of emergency for nearly two years. The president now wants to make some of its most controversial elements permanent law.
Emmanuel Macron’s honeymoon period as French president is over.
Macron’s portrait and taste in literature are full of political symbols to be sussed.
Populist parties like France’s Front National typically stress traditional family values. So is it possible for them to appeal to traditional leftist voters like single women and the queer community?
A huge number of new politicians have joined the National Assembly after the 2017 election.
France’s new En Marche! party is on track to win 400 legislative seats, another victory for the country’s young president.
Emmanuel Macron may have won the presidential election, but his agenda could fail if his party doesn’t get a majority in Parliament.
The new French president has announced a cabinet with members from the left, right and greens.
Despite being widely tipped as the next leader of the Front National, the young deputy is dropping out.
The self-confessed europhile will need to respond to concerns about the EU if he is to succeed as French president.
Never before in French presidential elections have commentators and pundits expressed alarming concern about the size of the blank voting.
What does it mean to be French? The two standing presidential candidates hope voters will agree with their version of the answer.
Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron’s plan to reform the eurozone if elected is easier made than implemented.
Both Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have gained from the very deep disaffection of the French electorate with its traditional political representatives.
A survey shows that candidates who exploited populism in one way or the other during the first round of the French presidential election captured about half of the vote.
The first round of the presidential election has left French citizens and politicians divided – and the top candidates’ four-way split doesn’t favour governance of the country.
After a historic battle, we now know that one of two people will be the next president of France.
Older white voters have long made up the core of the FN’s support, but Marine Le Pen claims that its now the party of choice for twentysomethings. It’s a claim worth investigating.
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Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham
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Reader in French Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor of Politics & Co-Director, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University
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Directeur de recherches (CNRS) au Cevipof, Sciences Po
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Professor in French and European Politics, UCL
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Head of Department Politics, Languages and International Studies - Senior Lecturer in French and European Politics, University of Bath
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Professeur en Information-Communication à l’Institut Français de presse (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas), Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
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