Under France’s second-ballot system, French voters can vote with their hearts in the first round, knowing they’ll be able to vote in the second round with their heads — in other words, strategically.
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The runoff vote has resulted in an unrecognisable national assembly and nobody knows what happens next.
The ‘cordon sanitaire’ is a strategy used across Europe to try to exclude political extremes from the mainstream.
After the legislative dissolution decided by French president Emmanual Macron, the second round of the legislative elections reveals a political landscape turned upside down.
The latest surprise results have seen a left-wing coalition take the lead, but no party will be able to form a parliamentary majority.
Marine Le Pen’s far-right push has been halted in its tracks.
The far-right looks like it will be a significant parliamentary force in France over the next few years.
After President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly, the first round of the snap legislative elections took place on June 30. Historian Mathias Bernard analyses what’s at stake.
French far-right party, the National Front, has taken a third of votes, nearly doubling its support from 2022.
Leftist and centrist parties will now try to coalesce behind each other’s candidates in order to prevent National Rally from securing an outright majority in parliament.
For the far-right party’s voters, school is a source of concern and mistrust and also a key to understanding its success among women and voters with few qualifications.
Italy’s prime minister won big in the European elections, leveraging her campaign to bring her exclusionary politics into the mainstream.
In the wake of France’s controversial immigration bill, one scholar compares France’s reliability on immigrant workers in key sectors against the rest of Europe.
Sweeping new research shows many Europeans could accept to live under a non-democratic regime.
How political parties such as Fidesz, Brothers of Italy, and the National Rally form part of the European Parliament.
The results of the second round resulted in a historic record of seats for the RN and an even greater polarisation of political life within the National Assembly itself.
Amid record abstention, the left-wing NUPES coalition performed well against the presidential coalition.
While Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National has engaged in a decade-long campaign to rehabilitate its image with youth voters, the GOP is moving in the opposite direction.
Research shows that Europe’s far right has deep ideological and practical ties to Putin’s Russia.
Emmanuel Macron’s success validates a strategy aimed at making him appear as the champion of the “progressives”, but it has only partially worked.
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Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Politics, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics, Aston University
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Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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