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Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's main far-right party, is pictured. (Image by Mathias Destal from Flickr via Courthouse News) MARSEILLE, France (CN) — France's extreme-right National Front ...

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French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to hold an unnecessary snap election has favored the extreme right National Rally party. In the first round of elections, held June 30, National Rally ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's far-right National Front party is still expected to lead first-round voting in departmental elections next month, despite a recent recovery in Socialist President Francois ...

One word encapsulates French politics after last week’s parliamentary elections: impasse. Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally failed to gain a majority — but neither did the leftist alliance New ...

The National Rally (RN) failed not only to secure an outright majority in the second round of parliamentary voting in France on July 7 but finished third, contrary to predictions that the far-right ...

National Front leader Marine Le Pen called for the dissolution of the French national assembly on Sunday after exit polls showed her anti-immigrant, Eurosceptic party winning European Parliament ...

Paris — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the historic leader of France's far-right political movement, died Tuesday at the age of 96, the French news agency AFP said, citing his family. Le Pen, who had been in a ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former leader of France's far right National Front party, has been hospitalised for exhaustion ahead of a trial in which he stands accused of inciting ...

Paris (CNN) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine Le Pen and the defining figure of France’s postwar far-right movement, has died at the age of 96, according to French network BFMTV. From founding the ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen has died, aged 96, on the same day that France solemnly honored the victims of the Islamist terrorist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ten years earlier. Charlie Hebdo ...