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French students protest presidential choice

French students picketed schools on Thursday to protest against the choices in the upcoming presidential election.

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French elections: activists disrupt Marine Le Pen's press conference

A member of the "Ibiza collective" was evacuated after disrupting Marine Le Pen's press conference in Paris by holding up a heart-shaped sign with a photo of the Rassemblement National candidate and Vladimir Putin.

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Watch: Here's why you should care about France's presidential election

Incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen have widely different views on how to run the EU's second-largest economy.

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Macron-Le Pen face-off: Five reasons why it'll be different this time

Emmanuel Macron will find it much harder to win over an angry, divided France than in 2017, and the prospect of Marine Le Pen becoming president is a real possibility.

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Macron and Le Pen battle for two visions of France's role in Europe

The far-right leader has moderated her Eurosceptic views recently, but her ideas on the EU remain broadly the same.

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France: Anti-fascist activists demonstrate in Rennes

Riot police descend upon Rennes city centre after demonstrations turned violent following the announcement of the results in the first round of France's presidential election.

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Watch: How Macron and Le Pen offer very different visions of the EU

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will go head-to-head in a run-off election to be France's next president. Where do both stand on the European Union?

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France election: Who's who in the race to unseat Macron?

Your guide to some of the leading candidates to be France's next president.

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Six takeaways from the first round of France's presidential election

The first round of France's election was marked by the far-right qualifying for the runoff, a collapse of traditional parties and a high abstention rate.

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Brussels favours Macron in second round of voting, says expert

The French president will face far-right candidate Marine Le Pen on April 24.

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'I want a France that is part of a strong Europe,' says Macron

The current French president is set for another winner-takes-all runoff against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.

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Macron and Le Pen to face off in French presidential election runoff

French President Emmanuel Macron came first in France's presidential election with 27.6% and far-right leader Marine Le Pen came second with 23.4%, according to interior ministry figures.

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Le Pen a real danger to Macron, say analysts as French election looms

Victory "has never been so close", Marine Le Pen told supporters in Perpignan, as polls have her breathing down Emmanuel Macron's neck ahead of Sunday's vote.

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Macron targets Le Pen's 'indulgence' of Putin as poll gap narrows

Four days before the vote, Emmanuel Macron tackled Marine Le Pen over Russian financing and her "indulgence" of Vladimir Putin, as the latest polling suggests his hard-right rival is gaining ground.

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French far-right candidates secure signatures needed for election run

France's far-right candidates secured enough signatures to run for the presidency after struggling to cross the 500 political sponsorship threshold.

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Le Pen halts presidential field campaign over sponsorship struggle

Both Le Pen and her far-right rival, Eric Zemmour, have called for a 2016 reform that lifted the anonymity of the pledges to be overturned.

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Defections and division: Is France's far-right tearing itself apart?

Some politicians from Marine Le Pen's National Rally party have defected to Eric Zemmour's campaign. What does that mean for the far-right in this presidential race?

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France: Far-right candidates clamour for support before April election

At this stage, Marie Le Pen or Valerie Pecresse appear most likely to reach a runoff against Emmanuel Macron.

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Two-day far-right summit begins in Madrid led by Spain's Vox

The summit is a follow-up to a similar gathering in Warsaw in December.

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Le Pen and Zemmour make French far-right 'most suicidal' in the world

Far-right candidates Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen have been urged to stop hurling "barbs" at each other.