Etiket: Elections France
Le Pen, a project to dismantle Europe from France
A phrase is repeated these days in the streets of France as a mantra, about the possibility of the victory of the far-right Marine Le Pen this Sunday: “Improbable but…
Le Pen encourages “peripheral France”, while Macron turns to the “banlieue”
The far-right candidate holds her last rally in the deindustrialized region of the north of the country The president travels to the outskirts of Paris to seduce Mélenchon voters The…
Neither Le Pen nor Macron at the Sorbonne
This Thursday at noon, under a splendid sunthe terraces of the Place de la Sorbonne they are full to overflowing. But not from students. The main building of the University…
Macron Le Pen 2022 debate: The president throws the blows, the ultra defends itself
The same protagonists, but an obvious change of roles. The French President, Emmanuel Macronand the extreme right Marine LePen They faced each other this Wednesday night in the only debate…
The French Prosecutor’s Office opens an investigation into Le Pen a week before the presidential elections
A European report accuses the party of the far-right leader, the National Regrouping, of embezzling funds from the European Parliament worth 600,000 euros between 2004 and 2017 This revelation shakes…
France worries, article by Jorge Dezcallar
Jonathan Haydt argues that democracies stick together and function better when they have a dense social fabric, strong institutions, and shared narratives. When these elements fail or weaken, so do…
The disturbing French laboratory, article by Santi Terraza
That a 57.84% of the votes in the first round of the French presidential elections have gone to radical options, from the extreme right or extreme left, illustrates the electrifying…
Can Macron?
The hope is that Macron wins in the second round of the presidential elections. Otherwise, France and all of Europe would embark on a suicidal reverse gear. And it’s not…
Mélenchon’s bitter comeback
The leader of the rebels gets 21.95% of the votes and is 400,000 away from beating Marine Le Pen A historic but insufficient result for the alternative left in France…
Fifteen days of heart attack | Article by Joan Tapia
Macron, with 27.8% in the first round, has raised his 2017 vote share almost twice that of Marine Le Pen (23.2%). But then Macron was already celebrating his victory and…