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• Riot police charge and spray tear gas on Paris protestors after Macron victory

  Riot police charged and sprayed teargas on demonstrators in central Paris protesting after President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected.

  World

  Apr 24, 2022
  
• France election: Macron beats Le Pen to win second term, projections show

  French President Emmanuel Macron defeated his far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Sunday by a comfortable margin, early projections by pollsters showed.

  World

  Apr 24, 2022
  
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• 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.

  Politics

  Apr 10, 2022
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• 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.

  Politics

  May 7, 2017
• Emmanuel Macron campaign emails leaked online days before French presidential vote

  Some nine gigabytes of data were posted by a user called EMLEAKS to Pastebin, a document-sharing site that allows anonymous posting.

  Politics

  May 5, 2017
• 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."

  Politics

  Apr 24, 2017
• First ‘Brexit’ now ‘Frexit’? What Marine Le Pen’s plan for France means for the EU

  If Marine Le Pen has her way, the French will soon pay for their baguettes with francs, not euros.

  World

  Feb 22, 2017
• Right-wing French politician Marine Le Pen refuses headscarf to meet Lebanon’s mufti

  France's far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen refused to go into a meeting with Lebanon's grand mufti on Tuesday after his aides asked her to wear a headscarf.

  World

  Feb 21, 2017