Emmanuel Macron on his arrival at the Champ de Mars in Paris.
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Emmanuel Macron’s success validates a strategy aimed at making him appear as the champion of the “progressives”, but it has only partially worked.
Jacques Chirac (here in 2005) was a defining figure in French politics after May 1968.
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A look back at the distinguished career of the former president, an ardent defender of France’s place in the world.
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Social democratic parties across the continent are struggling for different reasons. They can learn from each other to bounce back.
An electoral poster of Emmanuel Macron, France’s centre-left presidential candidate, calling for unity.
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France’s two presidential candidates diverge markedly on many issues, but nothing is as divisive as France’s relationship with the EU.
Benôit Hamon casts his vote in Trappes, France on April 23.
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With just 6% of the vote, the French socialist party of outgoing president François Hollande came a distant fifth in the French election.
The four main candidates.
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Just a month after moving into the Élysée Palace, the new president will face the country’s parliamentary elections.
Man of the moment or yesterday’s news?
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He ran the show at COP21 but the man who once became France’s youngest Prime Minister is not what the country needs in 2017.
Going down together?
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In late February 2014, it was discovered that Nicolas Sarkozy’s close aide during his presidency, Patrick Buisson, had secretly recorded hundreds of hours of conversations with the then-president and others…
French President Nicolas Sarkozy should be worried about the upcoming elections.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has a tight fight on his hands. He’ll be taking on the Socialist Party’s Francois Hollande in the elections next year. And he could struggle to get a second term. Four…