A year out from France's Presidential elections - which are predictable only in their unpredictability - the French head to the polls for a second time on Sunday, to decide the political shape of the country's regional councils for the next six years.
The first round of France's regional elections on Sunday were marked by a record low turn-out, a sluggish performance from Marine Le Pen's far-right party and a bad night for the president Emmanuel Macron.
"Enemies of France", will no doubt conclude any victories for Marine Le Pen in Sunday's regional elections are a sign of things to come in next year's presidential election. But John Lichfield explains how we should really interpret any wins for France' far right.
The French Prime Minister has vowed to take urgent action to cut unemployment, acknowledging measures are needed to stem the rise of the far-right National Front.
Despite unprecedented success in the first round of the regional elections at the weekend, a survey published on Wednesday predicted that both the National Front's Marine Le Pen and Marion Maréchal-Le Pen will be defeated in the second round.
France is in a spin over the prospect of the National Front taking control in some of France’s super regions, but what damage can the far right party actually do and will they even risk it?
France's opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy has said that voting for the far-right National Front "wasn't immoral", while the French PM said he respected those had voted for Marine Le Pen, but that her party was a "scam".
It’s not just the record score of France’s far-right National Front party that will have Isis leaders rubbing their hands with glee, but the complete failure of France’s mainstream political elite to give voters an alternative.
Is France becoming more intolerant and xenophobic? How can the record score of the extreme-right National Front party in Sunday’s regional elections be explained?
The first round of France’s regional elections delivered an almighty "shock" for the country, as one national newspaper's front page testified. Here's what we learned.
UPDATED: France's beleaguered Socialist Party has pulled three of its candidates from key regional elections in the hope of
blocking Marine Le Pen and her far-right National Front (FN) from power.
As expected France's far-right National Front party topped the polls in the first round of the regional elections on Sunday, picking up around 30 percent of the vote according to initial estimates.
This weekend sees French people go to the polls for the first round of the regional elections, which far from being just another meaningless local election, are actually hugely significant. Here’s why.
France's right-wing parties, led by former president Nicolas Sarkozy, edged out the far-right National Front to take first place in local elections on Sunday, in a crucial test ahead of 2017 presidential elections.
