"I was born with political setbacks." At the time she made this confession, back in October 2012, Marine Le Pen, then the up-and-coming new leader of France’s National Front party, did not mean it as ...

Update, 12/14/15, 11:15 am: Last week, the National Front was poised to take as many as six of France’s regional governments after the first round of elections. But the far-right party lost in ...

It was not that long ago when it seemed that the far right might come to power in France. But since National Front leader Marine Le Pen lost the presidential election to Emmanuel Macron last May ...

France asks, can an anti-Semitic tweet ever be considered a mockery of anti-Semitism? In recent days, however, Benoît Loeuillet, a regional National Front official in the South of France ...

As Marine Le Pen, who heads France’s far-right National Front (FN), tries to form a eurosceptic group in Brussels with other like-minded political movements, FRANCE 24 takes a look at her party ...

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front, thinks it’s time for the party to rebrand after her failed bid for president last year. She’s proposing the party be renamed “Le ...

the National Rally — a populist rebranding of France’s old National Front party — came third with 143 seats. Led by 28-year-old Jordan Bardella, the party had looked set to win outright ...

France’s snap elections are ... it’s far from inconceivable that the Popular Front could emerge as the main competitor to the Rassemblement National. Polls suggest this is plausible or even ...

RFI looks back at how the National Rally – formerly the National Front – went from a fringe group to France’s single biggest opposition party. The surname may be the same, but the party of ...

A tense alliance between France’s centrist and leftist parties ... for the French presidency in 2027). With Bardella front and center, National Rally wrenched power from the center during ...