France’s second round of legislative elections Sunday delivered a surprise victory to Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s hard-left “New Popular Front” (NFP), which came in first in the seat count.

French voters to begin casting ... 12.5% of registered votes go through a second decisive round that will be held on July 7. The top scorer wins. The election is not mean to replace President ...

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will face each other in a second round of the French presidential election on Sunday. None of the 12 candidates secured more than 50% of the votes in the first ...

French stocks surged Monday after the first round of parliamentary elections was interpreted to ... win an absolute majority of seats in the second round, this now looks even slightly less likely ...

Parties had till 18:00 local time (17:00 GMT) to register contenders for Sunday’s second round of parliamentary elections. With no official list yet released, French media reported that between ...

In French politics, there is a specific term for what the parties of the center and left are trying to do for the second round ... in the 2022 presidential election, said Seale.

The 2002 French general elections were held in four stages ... This meant that in the second round scheduled for May 5, voters were faced with the choice between Chirac and Le Pen, right-wing ...

Most people in France think the Fifth Republic's democratic system does not work, said a survey from a government-advisory ...

PARIS, July 1. /TASS/. French President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble coalition is running third after the first round of the French parliamentary elections. In anticipation of the decisive second ...

But the key suspense ahead of the second round on July 7 was whether ... forces in European Parliament elections this month. Projections from prominent French polling firms gave the RN 33.2-33.5 ...

WILL MÉLENCHON REACH THE SECOND ROUND? The leftist candidate repeats ... past in a presidential election, the preferred elections of the French, which usually lead to 80% of the census to the ...

For those following, the results of the first round of this year’s French presidential election have been rather ... longtime rival Marine Le Pen was second (23.2 percent).