Just four days before the first round of the 2002 French presidential election ... later, Macron's then Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin squared off against Marine Le Pen on primetime television.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded France's far-right National Front party, has died at 96 years old. Le Pen ran in five presidential elections ... President Emmanuel Macron said: "A historic figure ...

Centrist President Emmanuel Macron sent his condolences ... He was later tried and fined. In 2002, Le Pen placed second in the first round of French presidential elections — shocking France ...

Centrist Emmanuel Macron managed to cobble together unstable coalitions and twice defeated Marine Le Pen for the presidency. But in the parliamentary elections of 2022, the National Rally won 89 ...

Le Pen — who reached the second round of the 2002 presidential election that Jacques Chirac ... President Emmanuel Macron, a centrist, offered his condolences to Le Pen's family and friends ...

The majority color of France's map is ... Marine Le Pen already said that she is not interested in the prime minister position. Before Emmanuel Macron's decision to call snap elections, she ...

“History will judge” the legacy of far-Right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, Emmanuel Macron has said ... It came first in the country’s European elections earlier this year and then made historic ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former paratrooper and rabble-rousing politician who co-founded France’s National Front and pushed the far right into the limelight, died on Tuesday aged 96. Read our ...

Commenting on Le Pen's death, President Emmanuel Macron said ... He reached a presidential election run-off in 2002 but lost by a landslide to Jacques Chi as voters backed a mainstream ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen spent his life fighting - as a soldier in France's colonial wars, as a founder in 1972 of the National Front, for which he contested five presidential elections, or in feuds with ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen ... to centrist Emmanuel Macron, but with a shrinking margin. She is considered a leading potential contender for the next presidential election in 2027.