Several candidates from France’s mainstream left have joined forces with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed to boost their chances in mayoral runoffs on Sunday, even as others reject any ...

Voters cast their ballots on Sunday in the second round of elections that will decide who runs France's biggest cities.

France's far right has made gains in the first round of municipal elections in the southeast, while big cities head to a ...

France has suffered from economic stagnation during most of Macron’s tenure, averaging under 2 percent annual GDP growth. The pandemic didn’t help. Unable to deliver on the benefits of full-scale ...

Municipal elections are giving political parties an early stress test before the 2027 presidential race in France.

President Emmanuel Macron warned on Wednesday that political extremists presented a danger to France as candidates continued their campaigning ahead of Sunday's second round of polling in mayoral ...

What the first round of municipal results really reveal isn’t so much a country marching in one direction as one pulled in several at once.

By Gianluca Lo Nostro and Michel Rose PARIS, March 15 (Reuters) - Marseille's leftist mayor and his far-right rival were tied ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday castigated France’s mainstream political parties for working with “dangerous,” more radical ones after the first round of local elections. The comments, ...

By Ingrid Melander and Gianluca Lo Nostro PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) - Crucial races to win control of France's two biggest cities heated up on Tuesday with some candidates pulling out as parties deal ...

Jordan Bardella, the president of the far-right Rassemblement National, used the local elections to reach out to right-wing voters and candidates. Meanwhile, Le Pen, the party's leading figure, warned ...

The moderate, centrist parties that have dominated French politics for decades lost ground in the first round of voting. The second round will take place March 22.