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9 July 2024

  • Manuel Bompard and Jean-Luc Melenchon are surrounded by journalists as they arrive at the National Assembly in Paris, 9 July 2024. Bompard has one hand raised and appears to be addressing someone. He is in his late 30s and has receding dark hair; he wears an open-necked white shirt and black jacket; Mélenchon is in his early 70s and has short grey hair and glasses; he wears a royal blue suit, white shirt and red tie.

    France’s aversion to coalitions means any new government risks early collapse

    Snap election brings three roughly equal blocs and unwillingness to compromise or form ‘unnatural alliances’
  • Marine Le Pen

    French investigators open inquiry into finances of 2022 Le Pen campaign

    Prosecutors to investigate allegations of embezzlement, forgery and fraud during failed presidential election bid

    • The left in France has beaten back the far right. This is how we do the same in the UK

      Owen Jones

    • Britain is suddenly a beacon of stability in Europe – now it’s France that’s in turmoil

      Timothy Garton Ash

    • Today in Focus
      France’s leftwing alliance beat the far right, but what now? – podcast

8 July 2024

  • Stéphane sitting on the side of a fountain pool

    ‘It’s going to be a mess’: uncertainty tempers election relief in Lyon

  • Ella Baron on the French election results – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on the French election results – cartoon

  • A rally at Place de la République, Lyon, after the results of the second round of the 2024 legislative elections were announced.

    The Guardian view on the French election: time to build a republican future

  • Gabriel Attal walks out of the Hôtel Matignon holding pieces of A4 paper

    Macron asks Attal to stay as PM for now as France faces hung parliament

  • Brief letters
    Head rules the heart in French elections

  • France: Emmanuel Macron asks Gabriel Attal to stay on as PM for time being amid political deadlock – as it happened

  • Business live
    Bank of England policymaker argues for holding interest rates until inflation pressures ease – as it happened

  • In a referendum on Le Pen, French voters said ‘non’. This opportunity must not be squandered

    Paul Taylor

  • Political paralysis looms in France after shock election result

  • What is the New Popular Front, surprise winner of the French election?

  • The panel
    Le Pen has been defeated by the left, but who will govern France? Our panel responds

    Rym Momtaz, Shahin Vallée, Marion Van Renterghem, Mujtaba Rahman, Françoise Boucek and Nathalie Tocci

  • A Prince review – queer erotic drama of sexual enlightenment through gardening

  • First Edition newsletter
    Monday briefing: French opposition to the far right comes out on top

  • Supporters celebrate after surprise win for leftwing alliance in France – video

  • Le Pen speaks after French far-right loss: ‘It's unfortunate, we will lose another year'– video

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