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Issued on: 20/03/2021 - 17:45 France’s Senate passed Thursday Article 25 of a security law that allows off-duty police officers to carry their firearms into public establishments such as theatres and shopping centres, and forbids the management of such places from preventing it. The article drew opposition from across the political spectrum despite its passage. Advertising Read more Not a...

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Florian Philippot, for many years the closest aide of French far-right politician Marine Le Pen, said on Thursday he was quitting the National Front party, opening up a likely split in the country’s far-right ranks. Philippot, whose responsibilities for strategy and communications were earlier removed by Le Pen, told France 2 television that he did not like being “ridiculed”. "They to...

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France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen won a seat in parliament for the first time on Sunday, but it was a bittersweet victory that masked an underwhelming election cycle for her National Front (FN) party. The feisty 48-year-old, who lost by a 20-point margin to Emmanuel Macron in May's presidentia...

Marine Le Pen should step down as leader of France’s far-right National Front (FN) after disappointing results in the presidential and parliamentary elections, her father who founded the anti-establishment party said on Tuesday. “You outlive your usefulness when you start harming your party by your ...

President Emmanuel Macron named Édouard Philippe, 46, from the centre-right Les Républicains party as France’s new prime minister on Monday in what was widely seen as a bid to draw leading figures from the conservative opposition into his camp.Philip...

Catholics in France have by and large voted for mainstream conservative candidates in previous presidential elections. In the southwest city of Liboue, near Bordeaux, that tradition appears to be fading. The Saint John the Baptist church is one of Liboue’s most recognisable landmarks. The imposi...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday said Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election was "good news" for France. "I repeat, the election of Donald Trump is good news for our country," said Le Pen, who will be the anti-immigration National Front's candidate in France's 2017 presidential election. Le Pen, 48, was one of the first French politicians to react to Trump's stuing victory. “Congratulations to the new president of the United States Donald Trump and to the free American people!” she said [see below]. In her brief remarks, Le Pen said a Trump White House would assure that the sweeping Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and E...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy faced a series of verbal attacks on Thursday night, as right-wing rivals sparred in the first of three presidential primary debates. On the debate stage, Sarkozy complained he has been unjustly hounded by legal investigations and found himself fending off attacks by former party chief Jean-François Coppé and others. "After 37 years in politics my criminal record is clean," Sarkozy said in reference to allegations of influence-peddling and suspected illegal funding of his failed 2012 re-election campaign."Do you think I would take part in this campaign if I had anything on my conscience?" Copé, who has also been investigated in coection to illegal fund...

Thousands of left-wing voters in France are considering casting ballots in November’s primary to choose the conservative presidential nominee in an effort to derail a comeback by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy. Three recent studies reveal that between 260,000 and 560,000 traditionally leftist voters may be plaing to “crash” the right-wing primary in November to sway the results in favour of former prime minister and current Bordeaux Mayor Alain Juppé. One of France’s most prominent political research centres, Cevipof, said this week that around 10 percent of primary participants could tu out to be left-wing sympathisers in disguise. Other polls put the figure as high as 16 percent. The prospec...

A new book by a former Elysée Palace advisor threatens to taish Nicolas Sarkozy’s image as the conservative politician seeks to reclaim France’s highest office in presidential elections next year. Patrick Buisson, Sarkozy’s controversial and now estranged former adviser, on Thursday is publishing a lengthy tome recalling the years in which the pair worked alongside each other at the Elysée. Excerpts from the memoir, published in French weekly L’Express on Tuesday, paint an unflattering portrait of a leader who appears obsessed with the far-right National Front (FN) party, and relishes insulting rivals and allies alike. Sarkozy progressively distanced himself from Buisson after his failed pre...

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front (FN) party, is almost certain to advance to the second round of the country’s 2017 presidential election, according to a new poll published on Thursday. The study – conducted by research centre Elabe for France’s Radio Classique and the newspaper Les Echos – found that Le Pen is almost certain to qualify for the second round with between 25 and 28 percent of the vote. The only scenario in which Le Pen would not advance is if she were to run against Les Républicains (formerly the UMP) candidate and Bordeaux Mayor Alain Juppé, who is currently campaigning to win the country’s centre-right primary. Le Pen, who took over the FN’s leaders...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls responded late on Thursday to former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s controversial comments earlier this week on the country’s Gaulish ancestry, stating that France was stronger because of its diversity. Valls touted France’s strengths as a multicultural society at the start of a 24-hour visit to Senegal. “Today’s France is a society that is mixed, multicultural, because of immigration, all kinds of immigration,” Valls said in front of a gathering of Senegal’s French community in the capital Dakar. “If we are French, it is not because of our origins, our religions or the colour of our skin,” he said. “Our country’s strength is its diversity, its mixing, its lov...