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A ‘Titanic’ flop: lacklustre rally turns up the heat on conservative front-runner Valérie Pécresse

Valérie Pécresse’s first major campaign gathering was meant to energise a sputtering presidential bid rattled by defections and self-doubt. Instead, it exposed a key weakness of a conservative candidate ill-suited to the raucous world of campaign rallies.

France 24

French elections 2022: what could happen when country heads to polls?

As France prepares to elect next president, nearly half of voters say they are still undecided

The Guardian - UK

Valérie Pécresse rally focuses on immigration as threat from rivals grows

Les Républicains’ presidential choice promises crackdown after defections to Macron and rise in far-right’s polling

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France's Le Pen suffers high profile defection to rival Zemmour

French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was dealt a fresh blow on Sunday as her party's only senator became the latest member to throw his support behind rival Eric Zemmour ahead of April's election.

Reuters

Battle for the French far right: Zemmour, Le Pen try to steal each other's thunder

As France's April presidential election approaches, the campaign is getting under way in earnest. In this edition of our new show, we focus on the French Communist Party attempting a political comeback and discuss at length the battle raging between Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen for leadership of the…

France 24

French far-right leader Le Pen insists she can bounce back

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose campaign for the presidency has been shaken by a series of defections, told a campaign meeting she has what it takes to bounce back after overcoming many challenges in her personal life.

Reuters

French far-right presidential candidates fight for limelight

France’s dueling far-right presidential candidates are holding back-to-back campaign rallies

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Protests and tension as far-right French candidates hold rival rallies

Police intervened to break up anti-racism protests ahead of the rally held by far-right wing presidential candidate Eric Zemmour in the northern city of Lille on Saturday, while his rival Marine Le Pen held a meeting for supporters in Reims the same day.

Radio France Internationale

French far-right presidential candidates compete for limelight with same-day rallies

France’s dueling far-right presidential candidates are holding back-to-back campaign rallies Saturday, trying to steal each other’s thunder and keep their anti-immigration, anti-Islam agenda front and center in the race for the April presidential election.

France 24

French far-right party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen in hospital after minor stroke

The co-founder and former president of French far-right party Front National (National Front), Jean-Marie Le Pen, 93, is in hospital following a minor stroke, one of his advisors said on Thursday.

Reuters

The Guardian view on the Le Pen family firm: reaching the end of the line?

Editorial: High-profile defections and the challenge of Éric Zemmour could leave Marine Le Pen with nowhere to go

The Guardian - UK

Paris Perspective #23: Taking the temperature of the French electorate - Bruno Jeanbart

With just two months to go before presidential elections in France, the media swingometer continually points to a concrete shift to the right. On this end of the political spectrum, candidates are rallying the electorate with identical battle cries: more security on the streets and playing hard on immigration. Paris…

Radio France Internationale

French far-right leader Le Pen shores up campaign with loan

PARIS — The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen finally secured a bank loan for her financially struggling campaign to challenge President Emmanuel Macron.

Tribune News Service

Leave now if you want to go, France's Le Pen tells party members

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose campaign for the April presidential election has been shaken by a series of defections, said on Saturday that if members wanted to leave her party they should do it immediately.

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Le Pen's campaign hit by niece calling rival far-right Zemmour a better candidate

Marine Le Pen's niece Marion Marechal, a popular figure among far-right French voters, on Friday said Eric Zemmour was a better presidential candidate, piling woes onto a campaign already troubled by the defection of two EU lawmakers.

Reuters

A defection reveals Le Pen's Achilles heel: she looks too mainstream

Three months before France's presidential vote, Jerome Riviere made a blunt calculation: Marine Le Pen, long the leader of the traditional far-right, had lost her anti-establishment edge and veered too close to the mainstream to win the election.

France 24

A French citizens’ initiative – the ‘People’s Primary’ – aims to fix democracy

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 solution to mounting disillusion with the electoral process.

France 24

Several allies of French far-right candidate Le Pen defect to Zemmour campaign

IN THE PRESS – Monday, January 24: We look at French papers' reactions to members of Marine Le Pen's party joining far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, as well as the website Mediapart's analysis of 1,000 of his earliest supporters. We also discuss coverage of the ongoing crisis between Russia and…

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French EU lawmaker Collard to join far-right presidential candidate Zemmour

European Parliament member Gilbert Collard will quit Marine Le Pen's National Rally to join rival far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, becoming the third Le Pen ally in a week to link up with Zemmour, French media reported on Saturday.

Reuters

Defection of Le Pen ally rallies Zemmour's presidential bid

A senior European Union lawmaker quit Marine Le Pen's National Rally on Thursday to join the ranks of rival far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, saying he considered Le Pen had no chance to win April's election.

The Conversation

Will a surprise candidate shake up the French election?

In the history of French presidential elections under the Fifth Republic, no candidate has ever managed to gather more than 50% of the votes in the first round of voting and accede to power without having to get through a second round.

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