French President Emmanuel Macron has suffered a major blow to the political scene, but may still face a triple race as an informal European leader, not only because of his position, but mainly because of the weakness of German and Italian leaders, the agency notes. Reuters. Still, just as he needs to learn new bargaining […]
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France: A National Assembly that is not meant to last long
By Costas Raptis “The situation is unprecedented. The National Assembly has never had such a correlation under the Fifth French Republic.” re-elected President Emanuel Macron. The result is not surprising, to the extent that already on the night of Macron’s election victory the French appeared in the polls to prefer a 54% “cohabitation”, ie a […]
Parliamentary elections in France: 5 things worth keeping in mind
Two months after the re-election of Emanuel Macron, the French president’s faction comes out of the second round of parliamentary elections held yesterday Sunday: it will be deprived of the absolute majority in the National Assembly and will be faced with a “tsunami”, according to Mar. Lepen, the unprecedented advance of the far right. Here […]
Parliamentary elections in France: Macron’s dilemmas
LAST UPDATE: 08.24 The most serious problem of the President of France Emanuel Macron does not lie in the fact that in the end he will not be himself, as he hoped, the first head of state who would be able to rule for two terms without being forced to live together. It lies in […]
Erdogan: Le Pen’s defeat in French presidential election a ‘victory’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the election defeat of Marin Le Pen, the far-right candidate in last weekend’s French presidential election, a “victory”, Turkish media reported today. “I think the elimination and defeat of extremist views in the French elections is, I think, a victory, because everything we suffer is caused by extremism,” he […]
France: Big Macron win 58%
LAST UPDATE 23:55 Emanuel Macron is re-elected President of the Republic for the next five years in France as shown by all the official estimates of the results for the second round of the presidential elections. According to public television A2, Emanuel Macron has a percentage of 58.2% and his opponent 41.8%, while according to […]
Belgian press: Le Pen leads France overseas
According to the Belgian newspaper La Libre, Le Pen can claim a partial victory and in particular in many overseas departments of France. Specifically, according to the information of the Belgian media and while the second round of the presidential elections is in progress today (9 pm Greek time, the polls close), in the southern […]
Andelsblatt on the French Election: A decision on the future of Europe
In an electoral contest that sets the direction for the whole of Europe, the French will decide today whether Emanuel Macron will lead the country for another five years, according to a Handelsblatt article. The Liberal president leads in the latest polls, but a surprise victory for right-wing populist Marin Le Pen cannot be ruled […]
French elections: Macron favorite, Lepen for the surprise
By Costas Raptis He may not be a favorite of the French anymore, but he always remains the favorite of the polls – which give him a lead of about ten percentage points. Emanuel Macron enters the battle for the second round of the French presidential election on Sunday with the “air” provided by his […]
Macron: Lepen is taking advantage of the anger that I could not calm down
LAST UPDATE: 11:06 Emanuel Macron, his candidate for re-election as president of France on Sunday, acknowledged today that he could not at least partially quell anger in the country and that his far-right opponent, Marine Le Pen, was trying to quell some of that anger in the run-up to the election. her campaign. “And here […]