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Macron - Le Pen in second round: How did your area of France vote?

Far-right candidates made gains on their 2017, 2012 and 2007 results: 4,453 communes accorded more than 50% of their vote to a far-right candidate this year while only 1,135 did in 2017

Who gets the vote of the ten non-qualifier French election candidates?

We look at who the losing candidates of the first round are now supporting - Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen - although some are supporting neither. One candidate is keeping his view secret

America’s selfie influence on France’s presidential election posters

We look at all 12 candidates’ posters and translate their slogans. A communications expert reviews the strength of their messages

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Votes, budgets, rules: how the French election works and quirky facts

France’s presidential election begins in less than a week

Immigration, residency: The policies of French election candidates

Which candidates would make it harder – or easier – for foreigners to settle in France? We also look at what some say about language tests and dual citizenship

Comment: Macron election win would prove poor state of French politics

When he eventually got around to revealing his manifesto, barely three weeks before the first round, it was fabulously uninspiring

Continuity key theme as Macron finally declares candidacy in letter

We look at what he is promising for another five years as president and how his rivals have reacted

French presidential election: Key candidates and their main policies

Before candidates can be added to the official list, they need the support of 500 elected officials, not such an easy task for the more radical ones

‘Zemmour pirated images of our home for presidential bid announcement’

The owner of a château pictured in a video published yesterday by far-right commentator Éric Zemmour said he was ‘stunned’ by the images as he had not been contacted for permission to use them

Zemmour announces presidential candidacy saying he will ‘save France’

Earlier today the far-right polemicist was described as a 'Trump ordered on [cheap shopping site] Wish' by the official French government spokesperson

Far right polemicist Éric Zemmour’s use of Queen gun photo condemned

French gun federation says he was wrong to tweet a photo of Queen firing a clamped rifle at a gun range after he pointed a gun directly at journalists during a trade fair

A new revolution is coming, say Trotskyists

The far-left Trotskyist party Lutte Ouvrière (Workers’ Struggle) has had a candidate in every presidential election since 1974, gaining 5.8% of the vote in the first round in 2002 with the iconic Arlette Laguiller (the first woman presidential candidate for France). Last year it gained just 0.65% at the same point. Connexion asked its 2017 candidate Nathalie Arthaud if the party has a future...

Why third position is a good place for these two

Lying behind by Alain Juppé and Nicolas Sarkozy in the opinion polls, Bruno Le Maire and François Fillon are battling for third place in the Républicains’ election for presidential candidate. Michelle de la Rosa Lewis explains why it could still be important

Candidates

Macron - Le Pen in second round: How did your area of France vote?

Who gets the vote of the ten non-qualifier French election candidates?

America’s selfie influence on France’s presidential election posters

Votes, budgets, rules: how the French election works and quirky facts

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Cars and driving: What's new in France in 2025

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Dordogne: See which communes have grown in population - and those that have fallen

Police warn drivers of car headlights rules in France

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