Can the left bounce back? The UK Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, French Socialist Party’s Benoit Hamon and German socialist party leader Martin Schulz certainly hope so, as does New Zealand Labour’s great hope, Jacinda Ardern.
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Many French voters seems willing to give the new president and his party, La République en Marche, a broad mandate, even if they didn't initially support him.
Electoral posters of a candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, in Marseille, France.
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Migration and asylum issues have come to epitomise France's political tensions and to reflect the critical decisions that will face its next president.
Both Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have gained from the very deep disaffection of the French electorate with its traditional political representatives.
National Front party leader, Marine Le Pen, has been campaigning on a populist agenda.
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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.
Marine Le Pen has pledged to take France out of the eurozone.
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