The Latest Breaking News from Marine Le Pen

French President Emmanuel Macron enjoyed no respite on Monday as, hours after he won re-election by defeating the far right's Marine Le Pen, political opponents called on voters to deny him a parliamentary majority.

One of the headlines from the presidential election in France is that the far-right has come out of the cold and gone mainstream

Le Pen calls her defeat a ‘brilliant victory’

French President Emmanuel Macron has seen off his far-right rival Marine Le Pen to secure five years more years at the helm of Europe’s second economy. But the narrowing margin of victory and an increasingly polarised nation herald another rocky term for the incumbent, whose success was tarnished by the…

When Emmanuel Macron's election victory flashed on TV screens mounted in the main polling station of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen's stronghold of Henin-Beaumont in northern France, there was anger and disappointment etched on the faces of her supporters.

Centrist vows to respond to concerns of those who voted far-right or abstained

Mr Macron held onto his title as he ran off his challenger Marine Le Pen.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday vowed to find a response to the anger of voters who backed his far-right rival Marine Le Pen in elections, saying his new term would not continue unchanged from the last five years.

Emmanuel Macron’s decisive victory over Marine Le Pen in the second round of France’s presidential election on 24 April 2022 is no surprise. For more than a year, opinion polls had been predicting it. As early as April 2021, the leading polling institutes (Elabe, Harris interactive, Ifop, Ipsos) estimated the…

The Scottish First Minister congratulated the French president whose rival Marine Le Pen has conceded defeat

Monday: Australians pay respects to fallen soldiers as Anzac Day commemorations return after Covid disruptions. Plus: Emmanuel Macron defeats far right’s Marine Le Pen for French presidency