French legislative elections 2022

Issued on: 30/06/2022 - 14:37 Hard-left MP Eric Coquerel was elected chair of the French parliament's powerful finance committee on Thursday, a day after the far-right…

The French National Assembly has elected Yaël Braun-Pivet as its president, equivalent to a Speaker of the House, in the opening session of its 16th Legislature. Braun-Pivet, a 51-year-old member of Emmanuel Macron's…

France's new slate of lower-house lawmakers sit in the National Assembly for the first time on Tuesday to open the 16th Legislature. An astonishing surge of far-right and leftist winners in elections this month not only…

French voters elected 32 deputies of minority origins to the new National Assembly, according to a FRANCE 24 count. While it marks a slight decline in diversity representation from a record high in the 2017 polls, it…

Issued on: 22/06/2022 - 19:56 French President Emmanuel Macron is addressing the nation for the first time on Wednesday since his centrist coalition lost control of…

Issued on: 22/06/2022 - 13:50 French President Emmanuel Macron pressed on with efforts Wednesday to end the crisis created by his failure to retain a parliamentary majority…

France is wading into uncharted waters after President Emmanuel Macron lost his absolute majority, with a large but shaky opposition bloc on the left and scores more far-right lawmakers surging into the National…

Issued on: 21/06/2022 - 00:59 French President Emmanuel Macron will meet party leaders including the far-right Marine Le Pen for talks, the Elysee said Monday, after he and…

Issued on: 20/06/2022 - 19:47 French President Emmanuel Macron and his allies started working on Monday to cobble together a working parliamentary majority to salvage his…

Sunday’s runoff elections have led to an unprecedented political situation in France: President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition has fallen well short of a majority, leaving no single party dominant in the chamber. The left…