Tag: National Front (FN)

• Monday, December 7th 2015 - 08:19 UTC

  France's far right National Front with record gains in regional elections

  

  France's far-right National Front (FN) saw record gains in the first round of regional polls on Sunday, held under a state of emergency just three weeks after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris. Despite the strong result, it faces an uphill battle to clinch a run-off vote next week after Socialists withdrew candidates to block it from power.

• Monday, September 29th 2014 - 08:33 UTC

  French far-right won its first ever seats in the country's Senate

  

  The far-right National Front won its first ever seats in France's upper house of parliament, as President Francois Hollande's Socialist party lost its Senate majority. The left still controls the lower house, which is the dominant legislative body in France, but Sunday's ballot underlined the unpopularity of the president and the continued rise of the anti-immigration, anti-Euro National Front.

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 15:53 UTC

  “Black Sunday” for French Socialists, although they managed to retain Paris

  

  French President Francois Hollande is set to take the axe to his beleaguered government after it suffered humiliating losses in local elections in which the far-right National Front (FN) made historic gains.