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Jean-Luc Mélenchon

French candidates race to claim the cost-of-living issue ahead of 2027 vote

Analysis
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France: Far-right and far-left lead polls

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French Presidential campaign heats up

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French presidential candidates clash at first debate before upcoming elections

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French MEP Glucksmann seeks to unite the left in bid for French presidency

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The Debate

Air conditioning for all? France divided over response to record-breaking heatwave

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Summer blockbuster: Why the French keep coming back to Charles de Gaulle

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Veteran leftist Mélenchon to stand in 2027 French presidential election

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The industrial crisis is challenging both the EU and France's distinct social and economic models

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Macron on the world stage: French president 'very popular everywhere in Europe, except for France'

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French-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan to be tried for 'advocating terrorism' in X post

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French Socialists split over alliance with hard-left party in mayoral runoffs

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Press Review

Divided left battles rising far right as France heads to the polls

Two suspects charged over killing of French far-right activist Quentin Deranque

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France detains nine suspects over far-right activist's killing

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'Walking centrist line: Far right says budget too socialist, far left says budget as too right-wing'

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'Necessary evil at key times: Most French people don't like 49.3, but France needs a budget'

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Far left dismisses pension reform suspension, Socialists claim victory, far right embraces stability

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Macron wagers there's little to 'no appetite for an election', outside the political fringes

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With the next election just 18 months away, many feel they're better served stepping back from power

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France’s Fiscal Reckoning: Can Lecornu defy gravity, as he seeks compromise and coalition-building ?

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The French Exception: Why both reform and compromise are political minefields in the Fifth Republic

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France's inability to form coalitions: All parties in parliament behave as if they've got a mandate

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France: PM Lecornu suspends controversial pension reform

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Biggest challenge for Lecornu govt: 'Show that democracy is still a winning formula'

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'Symbolic power: What's the point of Macron, or the centre, if they give everything away?'

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German MEP Andresen: 'Even people close to Macron don’t really understand what he is doing'

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Hind Ziane: Solution to France’s political crisis is to call snap elections, build absolute majority

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'French parliamentary arithmetic points to PM with coalition from left or populist (far) right'

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'We must be grown-ups today': French MP Eléonore Caroit asserts it's 'our duty' to seek way forward

'French politics has always been baroque, but now it's playing out on the public stage'

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France: Opposition leader Melenchon reacts to PM Lecornu's resignation

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French voters desire change amid growing disillusionment with Macron and successive PMs

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'Legacy of the yellow vests: Police go hard on protesters, any hint of escalation met with teargas'

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'Lecornu speaks to everyone: Seasoned politician rooted in public service' on local, national level

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Continuity Macronism: Will loyalist Lecornu face entrenched opposition as political divide hardens?

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Macron government needs to be imaginative, venture beyond familiar ground to find new solutions

French protesters 'focus on disrupting key elements of national infrastructure'

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Macron’s politics weakened mainstream parties while energising populist forces on both right & left

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‘Resigned to Failure?’ Bayrou’s ‘doomed gamble’ harks back to Macron's 2024 snap elections fallout

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'Intergenerational fairness': In final speech to parliament, Bayrou unveils how pension is funded

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Veron: 'Distinguishing the real French political crisis from the lack of a immediate financial one'

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Is new alliance in works, extending from French Socialists, Ecologists, Communists to centre-right?

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France plunges back into crisis after PM Bayrou's confidence vote backfires

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'Extremely unpopular French PM Bayrou playing both sides' in a bid to push through austerity budget

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As Bayrou gambles on austerity, far right weighs 'chaos narrative for maximum electoral advantage'

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What AI detection tools got wrong in the case of a photo tweeted by a French politician

France: New divisions among left-wing coalition after no confidence vote

'Bayrou needs to be careful about managing a lot of very sensitive groups in French Parliament'

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PM Bayrou expected to name France's new government this evening

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Does LR risk getting swallowed up by centre or losing themselves, clinging ever closer to far right?

Brussels quite 'perplexed', somewhat 'worried', about France's current political, economic crises

'Macron responsible for bad economic situation': Snap elections 'created chaos in financial markets'

Calls to resign or for impeachment 'serious development in legitimacy of Macron & presidency itself'

France is 'learning how to function as a parliamentary country again', just like European neighbours

'And so it goes': Macron makes 'fairly ham-fisted, very clumsy attempt' to re-center government

'European vacuum': Franco-German alliance in trouble at a 'critical moment for Europe and France'

'Search for a Goldilocks govt in a parliament of bears': Will Macron find 'new way through' impasse?

EU in uncharted territory: Neither France nor Germany 'able to provide the leadership Europe needs'

Barnier govt on chopping block: 'Very surprising alliance between left-wing coalition and far right'

No-confidence vote 'putting France in a very difficult position for political reasons'

'Twilight' of his presidency: 'Macron has painted himself into a corner from which he can't escape'

Far right's 'shadow everywhere': 'French PM's only hope is to keep far right happy and on-board'

Republican front sidelined: Barnier govt 'can only exist with implicit support of far-right Le Pen'

'Worrying & concerning': Left coalition largely ignored as Macron 'caters to interests' of far-right

Man of La Mancha: 'Barnier has an impossible job, no one really willing to play nice' ahead of 2027

'Institutions in crisis': Macron's 'tacit alliance with far right a preview' of the lead-up to 2027

Macron gives far-right 'best of both worlds': Role of kingmaker who's 'not accountable for anything'

'Extremely volatile': Far-right 'king-maker' as Macron sidelines election victor 'republican front'

Macron names PM, 'lurches towards right' with 'twin focus' on reducing budget, 'courting far-right'

Does Macron seek to exploit 'divides' within NFP to 'impose his politics on National Assembly'?

Is France heading toward 'powder-keg situation'? PM to face 'significant political, social problems'