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Current French President and centrist presidential candidate for reelection Emmanuel Macron arrives to delivers his speech at his election night headquarters Sunday, April 10, 2022 in Paris. French polling agencies projected Sunday that incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen are heading for another winner-takes-all runoff in the French presidential election, with their fierce political rivalry and sharply opposing visions pulling clear of a crowded field of 12 candidates in the first round of voting. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Beer flows, Champagne bubbles as Macron, Le Pen reach final
By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press
Sun,04/10/22-5:04PM , 103 Reads
PARIS (AP) — Beer flowed at incumbent Emmanuel Macron’s celebration of his first-round victory in the French presidential election, while Champagne corks popped across town to mark far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s second-place showing.
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A man walks past presidential campaign posters of french president Emmanuel Macron and centrist candidate for reelection and french far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in Anglet, southwestern France, Wednesday, April 8, 2022. France's first round of the presidential election takes place on April 10, with a presidential runoff on April 24 if no candidate wins outright. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

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Macron confident as far-right rival closes in ahead of vote
By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press
Fri,04/08/22-7:20AM , 75 Reads
PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he has no fear of losing France’s presidential election, despite far-right rival Marine Le Pen narrowing the gap in opinion polls days before the first-round vote.
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FILE- Marine Le Pen walks on stage, at a National Rally event in Frejus, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. French nationalist Marine Le Pen has softened her rhetoric and her image as she tries to unseat centrist President Emmanuel Macron in the upcoming election, taking place in two rounds on April 10 and 24. She is honing in on the pocketbook issues that voters care about most. But the woman who has been known for her fierce anti-immigration stance is also facing a challenge from TV pundit Eric Zemmour, a more provocative candidate who styles himself after Donald Trump and embraces racist conspiracies. Their rivalry illustrates France’s tilt toward the hard right. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

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French far-right leader Le Pen softens image for election
By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press
Sun,04/03/22-2:15AM , 79 Reads
PARIS (AP) — French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen has softened her rhetoric and her image to broaden her appeal in next week’s presidential election — but is under threat from a provocative rival who has broken her monopoly as the watchdog of the country’s identity that they claim is under threat.
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Far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour reacts after his speech at a campaign rally, Feb. 5, 2022 in Lille, northern France. The words "great replacement" roll off the tongue of candidate Eric Zemmour, an outsider whose views are to the right of the far-right, has made the term "great replacement" the underpinning of his campaign. The "great replacement" is the false claim that the native population of France and other western countries is bit by bit being overrun by Muslims who are allegedly supplanting, and one day will erase, Christian civilization and its values and replace them with an Islamic way of life. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

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Far-right French candidate makes taboo term his mantra
By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press
Thu,02/17/22-1:38AM , 181 Reads
PARIS (AP) — Two words, taboo for many in France because they evoke a conspiracy theory embraced by white supremacists, have been haunting the French presidential campaign.
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