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.
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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.
Whatever the outcome, the next government will likely be even weaker than the current one, precisely the situation President Emmanuel Macron had hoped to rectify.
As young people despair that established parties can address their many concerns, far-right parties have found fertile political ground.
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.
Sunday’s vote show that the growing presence of far-right parties in almost all member states, but the increase wasn’t the groundswell expected and conceals differences.
European Parliament elections are held every five years and are often volatile. This week’s should be no exception.
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.
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.
Research shows that Europe’s far right has deep ideological and practical ties to Putin’s Russia.
A victory of the far-right presidential candidate would be good news for Moscow, which has a long-standing history with Le Pen and her party.
The first round of the French presidential elections leaves the country’s party system in tatters and voters divided along three poles. What will happen in the second round is now anyone’s guess.
The dynamics of the “strategic vote” in France have amplified the restructuring of the political field around three major poles: centrist, identitarian and far left.
Under fire for her past Russian links, Marine Le Pen may still be within reach of the second round of the French presidential elections thanks to her left-leaning economic agenda.
Recent polemical debates over French rappers Youssoupha and Médine show that rap is still not accepted by the political mainstream.
The south-eastern region of France known as PACA has long been a centre of power for the far-right, but recent failures in the regional elections bring its future into question for Marine Le Pen.
The protests, which have lasted for weeks, have become embroiled with deep anxieties in France about decolonisation, policing, the limits to secularism and the place of Muslims in French society.
We are living through the latest battle in a 300-year long ideological war over the meaning of humanity itself.
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