Yesterday
Labour landslide; Starmer should worry Albo; Stock picker’s $46m spree
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Armed kidnapper, Nazi sympathiser: Meet France’s far-right candidates
The far-right’s National Rally party acknowledges a few “infected sheep” among its candidates as it stands on the threshold of power in France.
- Diane Jeantet
Le Pen set to fall short of French majority: polls
Two polls show that Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party will not secure an absolute majority in the second round of French elections.
- James Regan
This Month
Treasury Wine US exec in restraining order row with Napa official
A restraining order has been filed against Debra Dommen by a Napa Valley politician, Belia Ramos, who says the Treasury exec opposed her re-election.
- Staff
French candidates bow out in bid to block far right
More than 200 have confirmed they will not stand in Sunday’s second round voting for France’s 577-seat national parliament.
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- Sudip Kar-Gupta and Dominique Vidalon
Biden’s debate confession; Retail sales rise; Crucial super trick
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
France’s parties scramble to keep far right from power
Stocks and the euro rose as some second-round candidates could be pulled to try to boost the vote against Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party.
- Updated
- Leila Abboud, Adrienne Klasa and Brian Johnston
- Opinion
- Populism
When the numbers just don’t add up
MAGA in the US and National Rally in France are both making voters big economic promises, but their ideas have some massive holes, writes Paul Krugman.
- Paul Krugman
Police worry about online radicalisation after university stabbing
The ideology behind the university stabbing is unclear, the assistant commissioner says; Peter Dutton announces Coalition support for the divestiture of the major supermarkets.
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- Maxim Shanahan and Lucy Slade
- Opinion
- US election
Liberals panic worldwide as Trump, Le Pen rise
Liberals are in for a long struggle as nationalist populism surges in the US and Europe.
- Gideon Rachman
European stocks rise after first round of French vote
France’s blue-chip CAC 40 index jumped 1.1 per cent to lead gains among regional markets. The European banking index had its best day in more than a year.
- Sruthi Shankar and Jesus Calero
Volatility is only certainty for traders parsing French elections
Traders are preparing for another volatile week after Marine Le Pen’s far-right party won the first round of France’s legislative elections.
- Julien Ponthus, Allegra Catelli and Alice Gledhill
France teeters towards dysfunction as vote puts far-right at ‘gates of power’
Emmanuel Macron’s gamble looks set to usher in a populist government or a paralysed parliament, unless voters rally to him in the poll’s July 7 second round.
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- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- World elections
Macron’s reckless gamble leaves French voters with invidious choice
Thanks to Macron’s miscalculations, the eurosceptic, anti-immigration RN has a shot at securing an absolute parliamentary majority in the second round of voting on July 7.
- Ben Hall
- Analysis
- World elections
Victory no certainty for Marine Le Pen as France faces second vote
Sunday night was a major victory for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. However, round two of this lightning contest is far from an electoral slam dunk for the right.
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- Henry Samuel
Le Pen’s far-right party set to come first in French vote
The National Rally was projected to get between 33 per cent and 34.2 per cent of the vote, putting them in pole position for a second-round run-off.
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- Ania Nussbaum, Samy Adghirni and William Horobin
Euro rises as Le Pen’s party set for smaller victory than feared
Initial results had the far right in front of Macron’s centrist alliance and the left-wing alliance but with less support than it needs to win the second round.
- Alice Gledhill and Aline Oyamada
June
Far-right looms as France votes in snap elections
France is voting in parliamentary polls that President Emmanuel Macron called this month, a gamble that has thrust the country into uncertainty over its future.
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- Johnny Cotton
France’s far-right ‘dream ticket’ chases election victory
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen anointed her youthful protege as prime minister in waiting, but the office may come sooner than either expected as France votes.
- Leila Abboud
- Opinion
- Opinion
Forget the far-right gloom: France is the Silicon Valley of luxury
Marine Le Pen depicts her country as a neoliberal wasteland. The reality is France’s bounty and advantages are not well distributed.
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- Simon Kuper