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French election highlights the weakness of the left

The French left has been divided over how to approach key issues.

Axios

France's presidential candidates: how are they polling?

French president Emmanuel Macron appears to have lost ground slightly in the latest opinion poll released by Elabe on Tuesday. With two and a half weeks to go until the election, he remains out in front ahead of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The other…

Radio France Internationale

France’s presidential elections: All you need to know

About 48 million French voters will choose their leader among 12 candidates in April in the most volatile context.

Al Jazeera

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France's Socialist Party facing irrelevance in presidential vote

In France's former mining heartland, promises by the Communist Party's first presidential candidate in 15 years to raise the minimum wage, lower the retirement age and tax big business hard resonate with voters who feel ignored by the mainstream left.

Reuters

French presidential candidates grilled over Ukraine war in faux debate

French President Emmanuel Macron and his seven leading challengers in the upcoming presidential election were quizzed on the war in Ukraine and Europe's looming energy crisis on Monday night in the first televised match-up ahead of the April 10 vote.

France 24

Emmanuel Macron promises to scrap TV licence fee if re-elected

Presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo says scrapping fee will ‘kill’ independence of public media

The Guardian - UK

Paris' Eiffel Tower lights up in national colours of Ukraine

The Eiffel Tower lit up on Friday in the national blue-and-yellow colours of Ukraine, at the request of Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo which Hidalgo said was to express solidarity with the people of Ukraine in the wake of Russia's attack.

Reuters

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Of hatchets and odysseys: French presidential candidates make their pitches to business leaders

One after the other, six French presidential candidates laid out their economic platforms on Monday to business leaders, just as the French economy emerges from the Covid-19 crisis saddled with rising inflation and labour shortages. The scholastic ritual for Elysée Palace hopefuls is viewed by some as a campaign prerequisite.

France 24

Low blows and a Royal snub: Struggling French left bemoans ‘ugly’ campaign

Paris's Mayor Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist candidate for the French presidency, has lamented an “ugly” campaign for the Elysée Palace dominated by mud-slinging and the revanchist, anti-immigrant rhetoric of the far right. She might just as well have been referring to the tribulations of her equally struggling left-wing rival Christiane…

France 24

French Greens object to spiralling costs of Paris 2024 Olympics

Green party representatives are objecting to the budget earmarked for the Olympic Games in 2024 by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo – who is also the Socialist party's presidential candidate.

Radio France Internationale

Paris unveils beauty manifesto to restore 'trashed' capital's lustre

Paris city authorities have published a “manifesto for beauty” outlining plans to spruce up the capital after an online campaign highlighting ugliness and filth put pressure on mayor Anne Hidalgo.

Radio France Internationale

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