The Latest Breaking News from the National Rally

While France's National Rally is enjoying record support from women voters, feminists warn that a win for the far-right party would mean a step backwards for fundamental rights.

The far-right, anti-immigration National Rally has published its policy priorities ahead of this weekend’s first round of snap legislative elections. Leader Jordan Bardella has promised to restore order in France, curb immigration and address the cost-of-living crisis.

Since the far right made new gains in the European elections in June, African leaders and commentators have been reacting to the prospect of a National Rally (RN) government in France, where the campaign for legislative elections is underway.

France’s far-right have forced the country to the polls but multiculturalism has driven decades of success on the field

Jordan Bardella's rise in French politics challenges Macron amid economic concerns and right-wing populism.

Crowds have gathered daily in France to protest since President Macron called parliamentary elections earlier this week.

President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to call snap legislative elections has provoked frustration in French overseas territories, where the short timeframe to organise the polls has been challenged at the Constitutional Council. There is also anger over the fact that key parliamentary projects for overseas France have come to a standstill.

Anti-racism groups joined French unions and a brand-new left-wing coalition in protests in Paris and across France on Saturday against the surging nationalist far right as frenzied campaigning is underway ahead of snap parliamentary elections.

It’s been a week of political aftershock in France, after the earthquake that was President Macron’s sudden call for snap elections. His gambit, in testing the far right’s EU election triumph and his banking on it being just a sign of voter frustration is an “all the chips” on the…