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France's far-right National Rally to join new EU alliance. 10:50, Tom Watling. Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) will join a new alliance in the European Parliament led by Hungarian ...
In calling the election on June 9, after the far right surged in French voting for the European Parliament, Macron said sending voters back t French vote gives leftists most seats over far right ...
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has been forced to resign just three months into his term, after lawmakers on the left and the right united to support a no-confidence motion and plunge the ...
The two rounds of the election were held on 30 June and 7 July in metropolitan France (France, adjacent islands, Corsica), while each round took place a day earlier in France's overseas departments (Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, French Polynesia) as well as in embassies and ...
This decision plunged France into a political crisis [2] [3] and was followed by France Unbowed (LFI), the main party of the NFP, initiating impeachment proceedings against the French president on 31 August. The caretaker government remained in place for 51 days, [2] unprecedented since the fallen Pompidou government lasted 62 days in 1962. [4]
On 9 June 2024, the National Rally party headed by Jordan Bardella, obtained 31.36% of the votes in the European parliamentary elections, causing French President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly and call for new legislative elections in two rounds on 30 June and 7 July 2024, to elect the 577 members of the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic.
In a surprise twist, the leftist coalition Nouveau Front Populaire dominated the second round of the pivotal parliamentary elections with approximately 172 to 192 seats, beating the far right and ...
France's government collapsed Wednesday after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was forced out in a no-confidence vote in Parliament, reigniting a summertime political crisis for the country as it ...