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Editorial: The French far right has a genuine chance of winning the presidential election for the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic

At a bar in Gouzon, a village in central France, a few locals gathered on Monday to read news of the first round of voting in the presidential election, which saw incumbent Emmanuel Macron through to face far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in a run-off.

A new wave raises questions about identity, elections and how we live. Conventional politics must answer them or die, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The president exploited the ideas of Le Pen and Zemmour for his own gain. As disaster looms, he must change tack, says French journalist Pauline Bock

French President Emmanuel Macron ramped up his campaign for a second term, with his allies zeroing in on rival candidate Marine Le Pen’s links to Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen face tense runoff after first round of voting in presidential race

After the first round of the 2017 presidential election in France, economist Thomas Piketty suggested that while there were four candidates on very close scores at the head of the field (Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, François Fillon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon), in reality France was divided into three political camps:…

Far-right and hard-left supporters turned out en masse for Sunday's French presidential elections, which saw traditional mainstream parties underperform catastrophically. As voters gravitate more towards political extremes, France’s political landscape is witnessing a reorganisation some experts have dubbed a "three-way split".

Rivals Macron and Le Pen set to battle for presidency in what is projected to be a very tight second round on April 24.

To defeat Marine Le Pen, the French president is now in dire need of same left he has disparaged for years

With the majority of the ballots counted on Monday morning, the official results of the first round of the French presidential election appear to confirm the power dynamics at work from the previous election.