Is There a Risk of Complacency in the Macron Camp?

Who Are Le Pen and Macron's Voters?

The Debate: "Macron Stands for Interest, Le Pen Stands for Core Beliefs"

France Rejects The Establishment

For the first time in nearly sixty years, French voters have chosen two candidates outside of their mainstream parties. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.

View from the Right: EU Élites Out to Crush Le Pen

The European Union Elites are out to crush Le Pen and prevent her victory in the second-round of France's Presidential election.

Will Marine Le Pen Triumph in the French Elections?

Marine Le Pen and her party, Front national, have tapped into nationwide anxieties over Islam and the European Union. On the eve of the French elections, we consider why French voters have shifted to the right, and what hope the National Front party gives them of a new France.

What Would a Le Pen Victory Mean for France? – Inside Story

The two contenders for French President have now emerged. For the first time, they won't come from either of the main parties. Centrist Emmanuel Macron will take on far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the run-off election in two weeks. But this election is about more than just liberal versus conservative. It's about being for or against the establishment, immigration, the European Union and globalisation. So, what will a potential victory for Le Pen mean for France and Europe?

Presenter: Martine Dennis | Guests: Dominic Thomas - Chairman of the Department of French Studies at the University of California - Los Angeles; Laura Slimani - City Councilor in French city of Rouen and a former President of the Young Socialist Party in France; Matthew Goodwin - Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent.

Macron vs. Le Pen: Unprecedented Choice in French Presidential Election (Parts 1 & 2)

Le Pen Savages Macron as France's Mainstream Rallies behind Him

THE GUARDIAN: Front National leader accuses centrist rival of being weak on terror as presidential election moves into second round

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right Front National party, has savaged the centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron as a “hysterical, radical Europeanist” who is weak on jihadi terror, as the country’s demoralised mainstream parties threw their weight behind the independent frontrunner in the first day of campaigning for the presidential runoff.

“He is for total open borders. He says there is no such thing as French culture. There is not one area where he shows one ounce of patriotism,” Le Pen said of Macron in her first public statements since addressing supporters on Sunday night after finishing second to the former investment banker in the first-round vote. » | Jon Henley, European Affairs Correspondent | Monday, April 24, 2017


Don’t assume Marine Le Pen is beaten: it’s delusional, and dangerous, thinking »

‘French People Want to Try Something New… They Chose Outsiders’ – Le Figaro Reporter

Polls closed in the first round of the French presidential vote, with Emmanuel Macron of the centrist En Marche! movement and Marine Le Pen of the National Front advancing to the second round. Renaud Girard, a senior reporter at le Figaro newspaper, shares his thoughts with RT.

French Election: What Would Emmanuel Macron's Presidency Mean for Britain? - BBC Newsnight

Centrist Emmanuel Macron will face far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the second round of the French presidential election.To learn more about the presidential candidate, Evan Davis has met up with Benjamin Griveaux, Mr Macron's campaign spokesman.

France Presidential Election: President Hollande Reacts to 1st Round, Calls to Support Macron

Relief in Berlin as Macron Wins First Round

HANDELSBLATT – GLOBAL: Pro-EU candidate Emmanuel Macron’s success in France’s first-round presidential election has raised hopes in neighboring Germany that the French will reject far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and break the populist fever that has swept Europe.

Berlin can breathe a sigh of relief – for now. Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has taken the lead in the first round of France’s presidential election, raising hopes in neighboring Germany that its most important European partner will hold the line against a populist wave that threatens to upend the European Union.

The contest, however, is far from over and the final outcome is anything but certain. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen was nipping at Mr. Macron’s heels in Sunday’s poll, trailing him by just 2 percentage points in the first round according to preliminary results. » | Spencer Kimball | Sunday, April 23, 2017

France Presidential Election: Defeated Fillon Addresses His Supporters, Calls to Support Macron

France Presidential Election: 1st Round Winner Emmanuel Macron Addresses Supporters

France Presidential Election: 1st Round Winner Marine Le Pen Addresses Supporters

French Elections 2017: Disintegrating Left-Right Divide Sets Stage for Political Upheaval

THE GUARDIAN: Squeezed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on one side and Emmanuel Macron on the other, the presidential contest could mean destruction for the Socialist party

French voters go to the polls on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election that to the very end has brought little consensus or comfort and only one certainty: the result will be a political upheaval, whoever wins.

Even as they walk into their bureau de vote, many will still be undecided, faced with paper slips for an unprecedented 11 candidates, only four of them thought to be serious contenders for the Elysée palace. There is a nail-biting sense that anything could happen.

Do they vote for or against? Do they choose a candidate who represents their politics or one who, opinion polls suggest, is most likely to defeat the woman whose presence as one of two candidates in the second-round runoff in a fortnight seems a given, but whose name still provokes a frisson of fear for many: the far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen, with her anti-Europe, anti-immigration, “French-first” programme? » | Kim Willsher in Paris | Saturday, April 22, 2017

France Votes: ‘The Determining Factor Is Personality’

French voters in Paris cast their ballots for the presidential election on Sunday in a tense first-round poll that’s seen as a test for the spread of populism around the world. Some 47 million eligible voters in the country will choose between 11 candidates. Voters in Paris said the choice was complex while others expressed doubts

Read the Guardian article here

French Voters to Cast Ballots in Wake of Terror Incident

Apr. 22, 2017 - 4:47 - 'Terror in France' author Gilles Kepel weighs in on 'America's News HQ'

Up for Grabs: Total Uncertainty ahead of French Presidential Election (Parts 1 & 2)