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Emmanuel Macron’s novices rally to hear how their elusive leader plans to win a second term

The French president’s supporters welcomed his late arrival on the campaign trail at an event on Saturday in Paris’s business district

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2022

On This Day in 2007: France's power couple keeps up the façade in a race riven by intrigue

Any presidential campaign has its share of emblematic moments that change the course of the race, be they breathtaking instant tide-turners or incidents laden with meaning only in hindsight. With French voters set to elect a president in April, FRANCE 24 takes a look back at some of the emblematic…

France 24 · Mar 29, 2022

France votes: Macron’s frontrunner status conceals deep rifts in society

While the war in Ukraine has given the incumbent a boost, his rivals on the far right and far left remain popular

Financial Times · Mar 29, 2022

Centre-right contender Pécresse slams left-wing article alleging vote register anomalies

Centre-right presidential hopeful Valérie Pécresse has denounced an article published in the left-leaning Libération newspaper that alleges fictitious members of the Les Républicains party were invented to skew her popularity ahead of the primary vote that clinched her presidential nomination.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 24, 2022

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

Valérie Pécresse’s first major campaign gathering was meant to energise a sputtering presidential bid rattled by defections and self-doubt. Instead, it exposed a key weakness of a conservative candidate ill-suited to the raucous world of campaign rallies.

France 24 · Feb 14, 2022

Valérie Pécresse rally focuses on immigration as threat from rivals grows

Les Républicains’ presidential choice promises crackdown after defections to Macron and rise in far-right’s polling

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2022

Defections sap conservative contender Pécresse in French presidential race

The conservative right-wing challenger to Emmanuel Macron in the looming French presidential vote grappled Friday with a wave of defections, while hoping former president Nicolas Sarkozy would finally offer his full-throated support.

France 24 · Feb 11, 2022