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French nationalist Marine Le Pen has softened her rhetoric and her image as she tries to unseat centrist President Emmanuel Macron in the upcoming election, taking place in two rounds on April 10 and 24

Emmanuel Macron is expected to win but voter support for Marine Le Pen shows the threat of the far right must be tackled

Emmanuel Macron promised more "progress" and "solidarity" over the next five years at his first, and only, big meeting on Saturday in his race for reelection. He also waved the spectre of a Brexit-like debacle to rally dispirited voters.

French President Emmanuel Macron called on tens of thousands of cheering but increasingly nervous supporters to help him win the "battle between progress and turning back" at his first campaign rally just a week before the first round of the 2022 presidential election.

French President Emmanuel Macron used a campaign rally to try to get past a controversy over the use of private consultants by his government, as far-right rival Marine Le Pen gains in polls a week before voting.

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

French President Emmanuel Macron warned of the risk of a Brexit-style election upset in his only campaign rally before the first round of the presidential election, in a bid to convince dispirited voters and re-energise a lacklustre campaign.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the internationally condemned act of aggression turned the political platforms of France's presidential candidates on their respective heads. The invasion that triggered Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II saw parochial issues usurped by a conflict that has torn open France's Cold War…

The most potent protest movement in recent French history, the Yellow Vest uprising looked at one point like it might bring a premature end to Emmanuel Macron’s presidency. More than three years after it was smothered, its politicised remnants are counting on their ballots to finish the job.

As Emmanuel Macron enjoys a substantial poll lead ahead of April’s French presidential vote, his opponents are trying to capitalise on revelations that spending on consultancy firms soared to nearly €1 billion during his presidency. But the controversy looks unlikely to torpedo his re-election campaign.

Emmanuel Macron and the far-right hopeful Marine Le Pen finished top in the first round of French presidential election. We look at the latest polling as the second round approaches