The left-wing alliance the New Popular Front has come first in French legislative elections, but failed to obtain a majority of lawmakers needed to control the National Assembly, according to an exit ...

Voters take ballot cards from stacks during the second round of the 2022 French presidential election in Lyon. (STEPHANE MAHE/REUTERS) PARIS—Millions of French headed to the polls for the final round ...

On Sunday night, joy: French voters had, once again, kept the far right out of power. On Monday morning, uncertainty: A hung parliament, shaky alliances and the threat of turbulent years ahead.

PARIS — The political earthquake that France woke up to Monday was no less seismic because it may have been predictable. The far right swept to victory in the first round of legislative elections ...

France’s election results, in which a coalition of left-wing and centrist parties staved off the insurgent rise of the far right, are being celebrated around the world—from politicians, like U.S. Sen.

A left-wing alliance has won the most seats in the French parliament after tactical voting in Sunday’s second round election thwarted Marine Le Pen’s far-right party, but France will be left in ...

Paris — A far-right, anti-immigration party is in reach of becoming the biggest political force in France after the first of two rounds of voting in parliamentary elections drew a historically high ...

On Sunday July 7, France elected 577 members of the National Assembly, the country’s lower house of parliament. In a turnaround from the first round of voting, a coalition of left-wing parties, the ...