Hard-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon has promised to opt-out of EU treaties if he is

by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, looks poised to become the biggest bloc in parliament after final-round voting

changes wanted by the group, which encompasses Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s hard-Left France Unbowed as well as

must end as soon as possible.” Socialist politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon said “ shame on those who

knowledge saw her eviscerated by Macron during a televised debate in 2017. Jean-Luc Mélenchon-La France

this would create within the EU. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, running to be French President for the third time

Emmanuel Macron saw off the far right’s Marine Le Pen in April’s presidential election, but now the French president is facing a threat from the other end of the political spectrum in the fight for parliamentary power.... He also wants to be prime minister if his coalition gains control.... , keeps control, the president will be able to carry out his agenda as before....

Emmanuel Macron saw off the far right’s Marine Le Pen in April’s presidential election, but now the French president is facing a threat from the other end of the political spectrum in the fight for parliamentary power.... He also wants to be prime minister if his coalition gains control.... , keeps control, the president will be able to carry out his agenda as before....

An absolute majority of seats appeared to be in reach, and some polls had suggested that the party could end up with 200 seats more than Macron’s alliance. But on Sunday, National Rally and its allies were third, winning 143 seats.... At the party’s election night event, where jovial supporters had gathered to celebrate what they thought would be historic gains, the results were met with shocked silence.... His proposed policies, critics say, are unrealistic, too extreme to be backed by modera

The “Elitist-bourgeois” and Europeanist bloc that has gathered around Emmanuel Macron is both solid AND a minority in the country. The“social-populist”bloc, in other words the combination of a vote of conviction regarding a structured social programme and a vote of exasperation structured around a