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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Emmanuel Macron

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The far-right has surged to the lead in France’s elections. But forming a government remains a tall order

        By Romain Fathi, Australian National University     Exit polls after the first round of the French legislative elections indicate the far-right National Rally party leading with about 34% of the vote. The New Popular Front (a coalition of parties from the far left to the moderate left) was in second with about 28% and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition was a distant third with about […]

todayJuly 1, 2024 20

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Tensions flare between far right, Macron camp ahead of France vote

          By Paul Aubriat, Tom Barfield and Stuart Williams     Tensions soared on Thursday between supporters of Emmanuel Macron and the French far-right after its longtime leader Marine Le Pen cast doubt on the president's ability to act as head of the armed forces after legislative elections. The far-right National Rally (RN) is tipped to win the election, potentially giving Le Pen's party the post […]

todayJune 27, 2024 11

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France’s Macron has gambled. Can he win?

      By Clare BYRNE     In the seven years since he swept to power on a mission to rejuvenate France's jaded political landscape, President Emmanuel Macron has developed a reputation for risk-taking. But in calling snap legislative elections after a trouncing in the European elections at the hands of the far right National Rally (RN) he has taken his biggest gamble yet. And one, according to analysts […]

todayJune 20, 2024 9

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French voters scramble for proxy votes

More than 550,000 proxy-vote applications have been submitted so far in the build-up to the French general election. The second round of the vote falls at the start of the French school summer holidays. Ross Cullen reports.

todayJune 19, 2024 18

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France to try suspects over false Brigitte Macron transgender claim

      Two women are to be tried this week over false claims that France's first lady Brigitte Macron was transgender, which sparked online rumour-mongering by conspiracy theorists and the far-right. In 2022, Brigitte Macron filed a complaint for libel against two women who posted a YouTube video in December 2021 alleging she had once been a man named "Jean-Michel". The claim went viral just weeks before the 2022 […]

todayJune 18, 2024 180

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France reducing military presence in West, Central Africa to 600 troops: sources

        By Daphné BENOIT   France is planning to reduce its military presence in West and Central Africa to around 600 troops in line with President Emmanuel Macron's plans to limit the French military footprint in the region, three sources told AFP. In February 2023, Macron announced "noticeable reduction" of French troop presence in Africa, as anti-French sentiment is running high in some former colonies and countries […]

todayJune 17, 2024 41

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Snap elections in France: a political scientist lays out what’s at stake

            By Julien Robin, Université de Montréal   Speaking at a surprise address to the nation on Sunday evening, French president Emmanuel Macron told French citizens he had “decided to give [them] back the choice of our parliamentary future through the vote”. These words, pronounced in reaction to the historic surge of the far-right National Rally at the European elections, triggered the dissolution of France’s […]

todayJune 11, 2024 12

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Macron urges French to make ‘right choice’ in poll gamble

      By Alice Hackman and Stuart Williams   President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he was confident the French would make the "right choice" in snap elections he called after the far right crushed his centrist alliance in Sunday's EU ballot. His surprise move came after mainstream centrist parties kept an overall majority in the European Parliament in Sunday's poll, but the far right notched up a string of […]

todayJune 10, 2024 14

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EU parliament election sees shaken centre hold – but far right now has chances to show its strength

        By Amelia Hadfield, University of Surrey     After the four-day, 27-state democratic marathon that is the European parliamentary election, a picture has emerged of a fragile centre just holding amid a shift to the right that carries a significant potential to shape the near future of the EU, despite having fallen short of producing the earthquake some predicted. The big shock came in France, with […]

todayJune 10, 2024 11

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