Sentences with phrase «french national elections»

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The far - right candidate in the French presidential election has been embroiled in two investigations, but that hasn't and will not impact her campaign, the Front National's project coordinator told CNBC on Friday.

Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far - right Front National (FN) party candidate in France's 2017 presidential election.

National data pointed to continued strength in the Spanish economy but a loss of momentum in France, as French consumers reined in their spending, probably due to political uncertainty in the run - up to the country's presidential election.

As far as most commentators are concerned, the first round of the French presidential elections, due to take place on April 23, will be a race to see who faces the far - right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the run - off in May.

If the Nazis» perverse reading of national election places them among the millennial movements, why not Cardinal Richelieu, who prolonged the Thirty Years» War to realize the French ambition to be God's proxy on earth?

But this double «betrayal» stemmed from a single motivation: Weil objected so adamantly to the national idolatry endemic in European (and particularly French) Christianity» the conceit that «holy France» was God's chosen people» that she blamed Israel and its God for inflicting the idea of election on the world in the first place.

Electorally impotent but mass - membership parties of the far left are not anything new in Europe: the French Communist Party attracts 600,000 visitors to its annual «Fête de L'Humanité» yet polls as few as 900,000 votes in national elections.

While parties such as the Austrian Freedom Party and the True Finns may have scored better in their most recent national elections, UKIP's share of the vote is very similar to the results of the French Front National (2012: 13.6 %), the Danish People's Party (2011: 12.3 %) and the Dutch Freedom Party (2012: national elections, UKIP's share of the vote is very similar to the results of the French Front National (2012: 13.6 %), the Danish People's Party (2011: 12.3 %) and the Dutch Freedom Party (2012: National (2012: 13.6 %), the Danish People's Party (2011: 12.3 %) and the Dutch Freedom Party (2012: 10.1 %).

Closer to home, if Francois Hollande wins in France's presidential elections this May, he has committed to renegotiate the treaty — which is not expected to have passed the French National Assembly before the elections.

The French president, François Hollande, has warned that Europe risks «regression and paralysis» if Eurosceptics and nationalists gain the upper hand in next year's European parliament elections, as an opinion poll for the first time put the anti-immigrant National Front (NF) well ahead of his country's mainstream parties.

On 23 November 2017, Florian Philippot, former vice president and de facto number two in the National Front, announced that his movement, The Patriots (Les Patriotes), would present candidates in the 2019 European elections, continuing to fight for the French exit from the European Union and believed that an opening existed for the «patriots of the right and the left», but clarified that he did not intend to imply any common list with La France Insoumise due to its ambiguity on the European question.

Marine Le Pen's far - right Front National led the French vote in the European Parliament elections.

Several changes from the 2014 election are anticipated, including the abolition of regional constituencies, return to national lists, increase in the number of French seats from 74 to 79, and possibility of transnational lists after the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

Despite leading in six out of 13 regions in the first round of the French regional elections on 6 December, Marine Le Pen's Front National finished in third place on Sunday.

Bernard Arnault, chief executive officer of LVMH and France's richest man, joined other business leaders in endorsing independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron against the National Front's Marine Le Pen in the most consequential French election in recent history.

He has been the recipient of many international honours, including the National Book Award, the International Dublin Impac Prize, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government, election to the Irish arts academy, several European awards, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China, and an Oscar nomination.

Other honors included the Grand Prix National de Sculpture from the French government in 1991; the National Medal of Arts, presented to her by President Bill Clinton in 1997; the first lifetime achievement award from the International Sculpture Center in Washington D.C,; and election as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.