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French right-wing parties were mired by infighting Thursday as campaigning intensified for snap elections called by President Emmanuel Macron, but his government faces a more unified challenge from the left.

Low educational attainment is one of the factors most predictive of voting for France’s far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National, previously known as the Front National). Beyond this statistical observation, studies find that voters’ educational trajectories are often troubled, relatively short and difficult. There is thus a distant or even defiant…

The leader of France's conservative Republicans party on Tuesday said he backed an alliance with the far-right National Rally in snap legislative elections, triggering a crisis within his own party and fury from the government.

Announcement shocks colleagues in the Republicans party on the mainstream right

The leader of France's main right-wing party on Tuesday said he backed an alliance with the far right of Marine Le Pen in snap legislative elections, triggering a crisis within his own party and fury from the government.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday faced opposition alliances crystallising on left and right, after the centrist called a snap parliamentary election in the wake of a European poll defeat at the hands of the far right.

French business leaders have been pitched into fresh uncertainty by snap elections called by President Emmanuel Macron that risk strengthening the far right.

French President Emmanuel Macron was to face journalists' questions Tuesday after calling risky snap elections that could result in a far-right surge in parliament.

In today’s newsletter: The president’s snap election announcement took everyone by surprise. How big a risk is it – and what does it mean for the rest of Europe?