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Les Républicains

French presidential candidates clash at first debate before upcoming elections

France

Outrage in France as Macron appoints senator who fought gay marriage to key rights job

Analysis
France

France’s lower house of parliament adopts final text of landmark right-to-die law

France
Spotlight

Lionel Jospin (1937-2026): 'Highly respected moral and intellectual figure among left wing'

France

Turnout low in French mayoral elections seen as key test ahead of 2027 presidential race

France

In France's municipal elections, 2027 presidential race looms large

Explainer
France

Paris mayoral hopeful Dati takes campaign inspiration from New York’s Mamdani

Analysis
France

Weaponising secularism: French politicians accused of using ‘laïcité’ to target Muslims

Analysis
France

French PM Lecornu survives no-confidence votes after pension concession

France

Macron reappoints outgoing PM Sébastien Lecornu, far right calls for snap legislative elections

As it happened
France

Macron under pressure after Lecornu becomes third French PM to resign this year

France

Can Macron’s quiet power broker Sébastien Lecornu navigate France’s fractured politics as PM?

Profile
France

Interior minister Bruno Retailleau wins vote to lead the conservatives in France

France

'Insult to injury': What’s behind the rising tensions between France and Algeria?

Analysis
France

French parliament adopts special law to avoid government shutdown

Europe

Green spaces and social housing: Paris’s ‘bioclimatic’ plan to transform the city by 2035

Explainer
Europe

France's right-wing Ciotti quits Les Républicains party, claiming it has dissolved into macronism

France

France unveils a more right-wing government after deadlock

France

French government reshuffle: PM Barnier appoints right-leaning cabinet

France

French Prime minister unveils right-leaning cabinet, decried by the opposition

France

France finally gets a new government in shift to the right

France

French PM Barnier says he will defend key Macron policies, toughen stance on immigration

France

France’s new PM Michel Barnier tackles challenge of forming a unifying cabinet

Europe

Olympics over, Macron walks a tightrope in search for new prime minister

STUMBLING BLOCS
Europe

French parliamentarians re-elect Macron ally Braun-Pivet as head of National Assembly

FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS
France

Former Republicans senator: Ciotti’s alliance with far right ‘unforgivable’

Europe

Republicans’ Eric Ciotti: ‘We will build right wing government to re-establish order on our streets’

Europe

Paris court overturns decision to expel Ciotti as head of France's right-wing Les Républicains

France

Ciotti to fight ousting in court as French right implodes over snap poll

French conservative party meets to validate Ciotti's elimination

Europe

French right fractures ahead of Macron’s snap poll as left launches 'New Popular Front'

Europe

Ciotti arrives at Republicans party HQ, says still in charge

Europe

Ciotti says he's still leader of Republicans Party, despite being voted out

Europe

French Republicans party leader ousted after proposing far-right alliance

Europe

France's rightwing Les Républicains vote out leader Éric Ciotti over election pact with far right

France

French conservatives in turmoil as leader backs Le Pen alliance ahead of snap elections

On the ground

French conservatives in turmoil as leader backs Le Pen alliance for snap elections

France

'Unprofessional, dirty and wild': French lawmakers vote to outlaw hair discrimination

curls, braids, locs
Europe

Migrant transfers from Paris ahead of Olympics anger local mayors

Europe

France’s fast-fashion 'kill bill': Green move or penalty for the poor?

polluter pays
France

Paris court halves ex-French president Sarkozy's 2012 campaign financing sentence

France

French immigration law: What are the measures deemed unconstitutional?

CONSTITUTIONAL CENSURE
Europe

Macron urges 'intelligent compromise' over immigration legislation

Europe

'Contradictions of Macronism’: French government fights to save face after immigration bill debacle

French politics
France

French doctors vow to ‘disobey’ bill stripping undocumented migrants of healthcare rights

PROTEST
France

French conservatives hold on to Senate as Macron party suffers fresh setback

France

French youth 'involved' in unrest, it's family's 'duty to make sure young people are kept at home'

Is 'Republique failing' French youth? Macron govt 'torn between law & order and softer left wing'

French pension reform showdown 'really an acid test on both sides, both for trade unions & for govt'

Macron embraced Republicans' pension compromise, 'completely failed to build any kind of coalition'

France’s PM Borne offers to partially change pension reform for conservative backing

France

French conservative party chooses right-wing Ciotti as leader

Europe

After losing the majority, can Macron strike a deal with opposition parties?

FRENCH LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS
France

French parliamentary elections: "We are an opposition party" (Christian Jacob, The Républicains)

French parliamentary elections: Center-right Republican party to get 78 seats

France’s conservatives torn over Macron’s ‘siren call’ before parliamentary polls

FRENCH LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS 2022
France

French presidential election: How France's once-dominant political parties fell from grace

Europe

REPLAY - French presidential election: Conservative candidate Pecresse concession speech

Tough break: Embattled conservative Pécresse to campaign remotely after positive Covid test

FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
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France 2022: The Choice

One rally to unite them all: France's Pécresse gives hardline speech as defections mount up

France

A ‘Titanic’ flop: lacklustre rally turns up the heat on conservative front-runner Valérie Pécresse

French Presidential Election
Europe

French presidential campaign: Pecresse promises 'new France' at first big rally

French conservative Pécresse holds presidential rally

French conservative contender woos Sarkozy to save campaign

France

Conservative Pécresse holds crucial rally after defections, Sarkozy criticism

FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
France

Defections sap conservative contender Pécresse in French presidential race

French Presidential Election
France

Valérie Pécresse: 'The Bulldozer' conservative who vows to restore French pride

French Presidential Election
Europe

French Senate passes amended bill transforming health pass into stricter ‘vaccine pass’

VACCINE PASS
Europe

Conservative Pécresse looks to establish herself as the ‘only threat’ to Macron

2022 FRENCH ELECTIONS
Europe

Pécresse wins Les Républicains nomination for French 2022 presidential election

Europe

France’s Les Républicains choose Pécresse as 2022 presidential candidate

Europe

French conservative party chooses between moderate, right-wing presidential candidates

2022 French elections
Europe