By founding the National Front in 1972 — which has since been rebranded and is led by his daughter Marine Le Pen — Jean-Marie ...

In talks that ran into late Wednesday evening, Lombard and Budget Minister Amélie de Montchalin signaled to the French left-wing parties present that the new government may be willing to discuss ...

Last week, New Popular Front (NFP) head Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s vacation home in a village in the Loiret region of France was broken into and sprayed with graffiti by fascists. Jean-Luc Mélenchon ...

President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named his longstanding parliamentary ally, François Bayrou, to head a new minority government. This comes after Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s minority ...

In fact, with France paralyzed politically and the far right and left ... forces — Marine Le Pen’s far right and a pan-leftwing alliance called the New Popular Front — make up a majority in parliament ...

For years, the far-right National Rally tried to distance itself from Mr. Le Pen’s racist and antisemitic remarks. But after ...

The Details: The motion passed with 331 votes, far exceeding the required 288, as lawmakers from both the leftist New Popular Front (NFP ... for a prime minister in France’s Fifth Republic.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's far right National Front, dies at 96, a senior party official says ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine Le Pen and the defining figure of France’s postwar far-right movement, has died at the ...