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No single force won Sunday's second-round vote outright, though a broad alliance of Socialists, Communists, Greens and the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) won the most seats, with 193 in the 577-strong National Assembly.

French President Macron delays prime minister selection until 'Republican' majority established in National Assembly following inconclusive legislative ele...

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on mainstream parties to join forces to form a solid majority in the National Assembly, in his first public comments since Sunday's snap election delivered a hung parliament. The left-wing NFP alliance, which won the most seats, has called for the will of the…

The left-wing alliance of the New Popular Front, which came first in the legislative elections with 182 seats, is holding meetings to try to agree on a candidate for prime minister and the broad outlines of a government programme. Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen has promised that her far-right National Rally…

Marine Le Pen on Wednesday said her far-right National Rally party’s accession to power was only "postponed", despite its third-place finish in the July 7 second round of the legislative elections. Although the party elected a record number of deputies to the National Assembly, its weaknesses were also exposed during…

French president appears to exclude far-right RN and radical left LFI in call for alliance of ‘republican forces’

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli publicly supported Marine Le Pen before France’s recent election.

There were scenes of joy at the Place de la République in Paris when many thousands of people who were gathered to wait for the result of recent French election discovered that Marine Le Pen’s far-right coalition has not succeeded in taking control of the national assembly. Many outside the…

Formed in haste to keep the far right out of power, the left-wing New Popular Front defied expectations to take the lead in snap elections and become the biggest bloc in France's new parliament. Who is in the alliance? What do they stand for? And now that the immediate danger…

Several lawmakers from the New Popular Front have reacted to Macron’s letter calling for mainstream parties to form a coalition by saying that he should accept the leftist alliance’s pick for prime minister and allow the bloc to form a government. The newly elected MPs see the president’s “machinations” as…

Prosecutors to investigate allegations of embezzlement, forgery and fraud during failed presidential election bid