Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro blames unrest on far-right conspiracy as isolation grows | Venezuela
President Nicolas Maduro went on the offensive after allegations of fraud in last Sunday’s presidential election plunged Venezuela into chaos and diplomatic isolation, blaming the unrest on a far-right plot spearheaded by “evil and sinister” political opponents. Amid growing international condemnation over alleged election fraud, Venezuela’s authoritarian leader struck a defiant tone, addressing foreign journalists […]
Eight arrested at far-right Tommy Robinson protest in central London | Far right
Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday as part of protests and counter-protests organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson. The Metropolitan police had previously announced that around 1,000 officers would be deployed across the capital to maintain order and keep the two groups separate. Eight people were arrested and several emergency workers were […]
Maddow frets about ‘Lord of the Rings’ being loved by the ‘far-right’
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow expressed concern about former President Trump’s choice of Sen. J.D. Vance as vice president and complained about the far-right’s embrace of “The Lord of the Rings.” On the third day of the Republican National Convention, Maddow commented on Vance’s ties to former PayPal CEO and Republican donor Peter Thiel, noting that […]
French parliament divided among far-left, center, far-right after elections
The French parliament is divided between the far left, center and far right, with no political faction even approaching the majority needed to form a government. President Emmanuel Macron, who has three years left in his term, predicted the decision to call early elections would give the country a “moment of clarity,” the paper reported. […]
Randal Kolo Muani makes statement as far-right threat rises in France | Euro 2024
IIn the end, it took a reluctant moment of light, a moment that seemed to resonate just a little with the noise beyond the pitch, to settle a cold, grey match at the cold, grey MerkurSpiel Arena in Düsseldorf. Sport is often confused with politics. Sometimes, and these days, deliberately, sport becomes politics. Here we […]
France election live: Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally at ‘gates of power’, PM warns | France
Important Events Show only important events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature A BFMTV graph showed the final results of the first round of voting, with the Rally National on 33.14%, followed by the New Popular Front left-wing coalition on 27.99% and Macron’s centrist Together coalition on 20.76%. share How did individual candidates perform? […]
French far-right scores convincing first-round election win: What to know
France’s far-right party, the National Rally Gained a solid lead early on Controversial leader Marine Le Pen moved a step closer to forming a government after opinion polls showed her ruling National Party was guaranteed victory in the first round of the country’s parliamentary elections on Sunday. President Emmanuel Macron of the centrist Renaissance party […]
Far-right National Rally in reach of being dominant French party after election first round | France
Marine Le Pen’s far-right, anti-immigration party is on the verge of becoming the largest political force in France’s parliament after winning its highest-ever share of the vote in the first round of surprise parliamentary elections. After exit polls showed the far-right had won, left and center candidates began calling for strategic voting to thwart the […]
‘Big trouble’ ahead for Biden as EU sees major far-right shift: Gardiner
Nile Gardiner, former foreign policy advisor under Margaret Thatcher, discusses the ‘dramatic’ shift to the right in the E.U. elections … source
‘Mother of all battles’: French left join forces to beat far-right electoral threat | France
TPosters on the streets of Montreuil, east of Paris, still flutter in the breeze, days after the stages, microphones and politicians who gathered to inaugurate France’s new government have left. Here, from the smoldering ashes of a domestically bickering left, an anti-far-right coalition has risen. The New Popular Front (NFP) is a nervous coalition of […]