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National Rally

12 July 2024

  • Cas Mudde

    Patriots for Europe? Viktor Orbán’s new EU group is another hollow victory for the far right

    Cas Mudde
    Marine Le Pen’s RN and Hungary’s Fidesz have joined forces. But Europe’s far right is fractured and Orbán isolated, says political scientist Cas Mudde

9 July 2024

  • 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

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

    Surprise result ‘restores hope’ but politicians urged to heed warning after far-right National Rally falls short
  • 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

    President seeks to ensure stability during transition after green-left alliance’s surprise electoral win
  • French leftwing campaigners cheer and wave flags on a public monument in Paris that is covered in graffiti.

    Political paralysis looms in France after shock election result

    With parliament roughly split into three blocs, it could take weeks for MPs in a typically conflictual system to build coalitions

7 July 2024

  • Voters react as they listen to the announcement of the projected results of the second round of France's crunch legislative elections.

    Europe live
    Leftwing coalition wins most parliamentary seats in France – as it happened

  • People celebrating in Toulouse, France

    ‘We were so scared’: France’s centrist and leftwing voters breathe sigh of relief

  • People watch a screen displaying the predicted results of the the election

    France election: surprise win for leftwing alliance keeps Le Pen’s far right from power

  • TV bulletin reports exit poll showing shock win for leftwing alliance in French election as far-right party falls to third

    0:42

    French election: exit poll predicts shock win for leftwing alliance – video

  • France on course for highest turnout in decades at pivotal election

  • ‘Our backs are against the wall’: French grassroots mobilise against far right

  • France no longer resembles a divided but tolerant family. It is catastrophically fractured

    Andrew Hussey

  • French artists, DJs and musicians unite to fight threat of far-right government

6 July 2024

  • A demonstrator in a crowd holds up a placard reading: 'Juive, daronne, ecolo, queer. Je combats le FN-R-Haine depuis toujours'

    French Jewish people conflicted over voting choices amid antisemitism fears

  • Jaqueline, outside her family’s home in Colombier-Saugnieu on the outskirts of Lyon. She is among 54% of voters there who cast their ballot for the National Rally (RN) party.

    Observer dispatch
    ‘We want our peace’: why is France’s far-right support such a rural affair?

5 July 2024

  • A man walks past graffiti in Perpignan

    Police, poverty and populism: how Perpignan became a laboratory for the far right

    French city’s election of a National Rally mayor has been a study in the party’s attempts to normalise itself in local politics

4 July 2024

  • Kylian Mbappé in France training at Euro 2024

    Kylian Mbappé laments ‘catastrophic’ French election vote for National Rally

    French striker Kylian Mbappé said Sunday’s runoff vote is an ‘urgent situation’, adding: ‘We can’t let our country fall into the hands of these people’
  • People hold their hands in the air as orange-yellow smoke billow from a flare held by a protester

    French elections: what is the republican front – and will it head off National Rally?

    In a decades-old practice, several mainstream political parties are co-operating in an effort to block the advance of the far right
  • Bin on fire and police and demonstrators in dark street

    France to deploy 30,000 police after election runoff amid fears of violence

    Move comes after attacks on government spokesperson and RN candidate in buildup to Sunday’s poll

3 July 2024

  • Marine Le Pen arrives at Rassemblement National (RN) party headquaters in Paris<br>epa11454634 French member of Parliament for far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party Marine Le Pen (L) arrives at the party headquarters in Paris, France, 03 July 2024. France's far right National Rally has made significant gains in the first round of parliamentary elections. The second round of the elections for a new Parliament is to be held on 07 July 2024. EPA/YOAN VALAT

    Today in Focus
    Will France fall to the far right? – podcast

    Marine Le Pen’s party won a significant victory in the first round of France’s parliamentary elections. Can they be stopped? Angelique Chrisafis reports
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