France Election

• Paris police fire at car driving at them, kill 2

  There was no immediate indication that the incident was tied to the election victory of Emmanuel Macron or to militant activity after the results.

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  Apr 25, 2022
  
• France’s Macron and Le Pen heading for election runoff, polling agencies project

  Unless someone gets more than half of the nationwide vote, there will be a second and decisive round between the top two candidates on Sunday, April 24.

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  Apr 10, 2022
  
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• French election: Macron faces tough challenge from far-right Le Pen

  Macron, a political centrist, for months looked like a shoo-in to become France's first president in 20 years to win a second term. But that scenario has blurred.

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  Apr 9, 2022
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• Emmanuel Macron takes power as French President, vows to overcome divisions

  The former investment banker becomes the youngest post-war French leader and the first to be born after 1958.

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  May 14, 2017
• Marine Le Pen pledges to overhaul National Front Party after election loss

  "The National Front ... must deeply renew itself in order to rise to the historic opportunity and meet the French people's expectations," said Le Pen in an address.

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  May 7, 2017
• Macron the maverick: 39-year-old is France’s youngest leader since Napoleon

  It has taken only three years for Emmanuel Macron to rise from being an unknown government adviser to be elected France's youngest head of state since Napoleon.

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  May 7, 2017
• Emmanuel Macron easily beats Marine Le Pen in French presidential election

  Polling agencies have projected that centrist Emmanuel Macron will be France's next president, putting a 39-year-old political novice at the helm of one of the world's biggest economies and slowing a global populist wave.

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  May 7, 2017
• French nationals in Quebec vote in the thousands for presidential election

  Thousands of French nationals who live in Quebec voted Saturday in their country's presidential runoff between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.

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  May 6, 2017
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• Marine Le Pen’s party in new turmoil over alleged Holocaust denial

  The two candidates facing a May 7 runoff offer starkly different visions of France's future.

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  Apr 28, 2017
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• France’s Le Pen resigns from party leadership to focus on presidential bid

  "This evening I'm no longer the president of the National Front, I am a candidate for the presidency of France."

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  Apr 24, 2017