This is the first time that the possibility of Bardela running for the presidency instead has been publicly mentioned ...

France has struggled in recent years to rein in public spending. Fresh data from the country's statistics agency, Insee, ...

Next will see another attempt to bring down François Bayrou's fragile minority government. But - writes John Lichfield - ...

This comes in the wake of her conviction for embezzlement, which currently bars her from running for office for the next five ...

Socialists and liberals are rebelling against the Commission president, but she has no easy fix in working with parties ...

French courts have barred France’s far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, from presidential candidacy for five years.

Le Pen, who has run for president three times, said she may be unable to run in the country’s 2027 presidential election due ...

France's far-right populist Marine Le Pen, who a court has barred from standing in elections, has called on her political ...

Relations between Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, leaders of the far-right Rassemblement National party, have grown ...

France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen has asked her top lieutenant Jordan Bardella, 29, to prepare for a run in 2027 ...

Ms Marine Le Pen fears she will not be able to run owing to a court conviction that is under appeal. Read more at ...