2022 French Presidential Elections

Issued on: 05/02/2022 - 14:57 France’s dueling far-right presidential candidates are holding back-to-back campaign rallies Saturday, trying to steal each other’s thunder and keep…

The spectre of Russian invasion is fanning fears of war in Eastern Europe. In France, the Ukraine crisis is a hot political topic for the candidates jockeying for position ahead of April's presidential election. After…

Issued on: 02/02/2022 - 12:14 As France's presidential election approaches, some aspiring candidates say they are still striving to collect the 500 signatures from elected officials…

Issued on: 01/02/2022 - 16:24 France's President Emmanuel Macron plans to wait before officially declaring he will seek a second term in April elections, with Ukraine and coronavirus…

Issued on: 30/01/2022 - 16:05 A four-day "people's primary", to pick a left-wing candidate for the French presidency from a divided and squabbling field, ends Sunday with doubts…

The fate of France’s Jews during World War II has become an unlikely topic of debate in the run-up to the French presidential election, exhumed by a revisionist candidate’s widely debunked claims that the Nazi-allied…

French voters who signed up for an online People’s Primary will begin choosing their preferred presidential candidate in four days of voting starting Thursday via “majority judgement”, a voting system touted as a…

Issued on: 17/01/2022 - 15:18Modified: 17/01/2022 - 15:19 A French court on Monday found far-right presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour guilty of racist hate speech for a tirade against…

Issued on: 16/01/2022 - 11:59 On more than one occasion, Valérie Pécresse, the presidential candidate for the conservative Les Républicains (LR) party, has confidently declared she…

Issued on: 15/01/2022 - 13:08 France's well-liked former justice minister Christiane Taubira on Saturday launched her bid to unify the floundering French left and challenge President…