Macron during the first round of parliamentary elections on June 11, 2017.
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France’s new En Marche! party is on track to win 400 legislative seats, another victory for the country’s young president.
Electoral posters of a candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, in Marseille, France.
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Emmanuel Macron may have won the presidential election, but his agenda could fail if his party doesn’t get a majority in Parliament.
President Obama and the cast and crew of ‘Hamilton’ in NYC, 2015.
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Over the past 300 years, Western educated elites have debated, founded and expanded the right to vote.
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Both attack the status-quo, but for entirely different reasons.
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Despite being widely tipped as the next leader of the Front National, the young deputy is dropping out.
Better get cracking.
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The self-confessed europhile will need to respond to concerns about the EU if he is to succeed as French president.
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Victory for Emmanuel Macron is a blow for the far right, but there are lessons to be learnt for 2022.
Emmanuel Macron, who will soon become eighth president of the Fifth French Republic.
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Macron’s win showed France is internationalist, outward looking, pro-EU and free market-oriented; Le Pen’s rise revealed that it’s also nationalist, protectionist, anti-EU and suspicious of outsiders.
Macron votes.
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Being president of France won’t be easy for Emmanuel Macron. Without the support of an established political party, his legislative agenda may go nowhere fast.
Macron sweeps to victory.
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France’s new president is just 39-years-old and started his own political movement barely a year ago. So how did he do it?
As a French specificity, blank vote is counted but not recognised, despite a steady increase of its usage in many elections in the country.
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Never before in French presidential elections have commentators and pundits expressed alarming concern about the size of the blank voting.
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.
In a heated presidential debate, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron argued over each other like a pair of bickering teenagers as their parents watched on, confused.
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The French must choose between two visions – one from Macron that looks externally to EU partners in trade and security, or one from Le Pen that closes France’s borders and yearns for a ‘Frexit’.
On your marks.
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Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron went head-to-head in the final debate before the second round of voting on May 7.
Supporters of Marine Le Pen campaigning in southern France ahead of the second round of the presidential election.
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France seems more divided than ever going into the run-off vote between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on May 7.
Marine Le Pen at a political rally in Metz, France.
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What does it mean to be French? The two standing presidential candidates hope voters will agree with their version of the answer.
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By promising a top job to Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the Front National leader is hoping to catch a few more votes. But is it too little too late?
Marine Le Pen speaking in Metz, March 18, 2017.
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It all comes down to how many people abstain.
Marine Le Pen.
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A new survey of French voters reveals a divide that predicts support for Le Pen. This same characteristic also explains Brexit and the election of Donald Trump.
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When Jean-Marie Le Pen made it to the second round in 2002, France was in a very different mood.