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The New Popular Front won a surprise 28 per cent of the vote to gain the most seats in a hung parliement, but years of tensions are resurfacing in the hastily arranged coalition

French President Emmanuel Macron accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Tuesday, the presidential office said, adding that Attal will lead a caretaker government with restricted powers until a new government is named. The leftist New Popular Front alliance has still not managed to name a consensus candidate…

France's political parties scrambled Friday to break a parliamentary deadlock brought on by an inconclusive snap election, as the outgoing prime minister vowed to prevent any government with far-right or hard-left members.

French left-wingers attacked President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday after he called for a broad coalition government, demanding that their parliamentary bloc should propose a prime minister.

Marine Le Pen’s RN and Hungary’s Fidesz have joined forces. But Europe’s far right is fractured and Orbán isolated, says political scientist Cas Mudde

Marine Tondelier, whose party forms part of the election-winning New Popular Front, says politics must change to regain voters’ trust

Emmanuel Macron is in denial about the result of France’s snap election, leader of the CGT union says

A few days after Labour leader Keir Starmer was elected British prime minister on July 4 with a landslide victory, ending 14 years of Conservative-led rule, a coalition of left-wing parties came out on top in the French legislative elections. It was a good week for the left in this…

No single force won Sunday's second-round vote outright, though a broad alliance of Socialists, Communists, Greens and the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) won the most seats, with 193 in the 577-strong National Assembly.