Macron Loyalist Government Announced as Populists Shut Out
Prime Minister Michel Barnier announced French President Emmanuel Macron's new government, which will mark a continuation of the establishment cabinet that has effectively shut both leftists and populists out of power after months of deadlock. More than two months after surprise parliamentary elections that saw a three-way power struggle in the National Assembly and no […]
French Far-Left Launch Impeachment Proceedings Against Macron
The movement to impeach and remove President Emmanuel Macron from office after he refused to take the far-left appointee to become prime minister following snap parliamentary elections in July has cleared its first legal hurdle and has officially begun in the French parliament. On Tuesday morning, the National Assembly voted by a margin of 12-10 […]
Far-Left Protests Across France, Accuses Macron of a ‘Coup’
Thousands of leftists took to the streets in France on Saturday to protest President Emmanuel Macron's appointment of centrist Michel Barnier as prime minister. Demonstrators flocked to Paris and cities across France to support the left-leaning New Popular Front (NFP), a coalition of the Social Democrats, Greens and Communists that is backed by President Macron […]
Majority Want French President Emmanuel Macron to Resign: Poll
Pressure is beginning to mount on French President Emmanuel Macron, with opinion polls showing that a majority of French people want him to step down. According to Ipsos investigation for Le Monde A newspaper poll conducted between July 26 and August 1 found that 51 percent of French people support President Macron's resignation. The poll […]
Telegram founder had iPhone hacked in 2017 French spy operation a year before lunch with Macron: report
Police at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, once Paris' main airport but now a general aviation airport for private and business flights to the French capital, arrested Telegram app CEO Pavel Durov on Saturday. (Photo credit: Reuters) Billionaire Telegram CEO Pavel Durov reportedly had his iPhone hacked in a joint French-UAE operation in 2017. The Wall Street […]
Macron Rules Out Partnership With Far-Left After Le Pen’s Warnings
French President Emmanuel Macron has ruled out choosing a member of his far-left New Popular Front party as the next prime minister, despite the coalition's alliance with the left in recent elections. After meeting with representatives of various factions in the National Assembly, Macron firmly ruled out forming a new government with the left-wing New […]
French President Macron defends arrest of Telegram founder while head of Rumble says he has fled Europe
The French government is facing criticism from free speech advocates after Telegram’s CEO was arrested and the head of Lambull said he had fled Europe out of caution. Pavel Durov is best known as the billionaire founder of Telegram, an encrypted private messaging app that is one of the most downloaded in the world and […]
France’s Macron says no political motive behind arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the Russian-born founder of messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France as part of an ongoing judicial investigation but that his actions were not politically motivated. Macron’s statement about X marked the first official confirmation of Durov’s arrest, nearly two days after he was detained […]
Le Pen Vows Vote of No Confidence if Macron Installs Any Leftist Gov’t
France’s populist leader Marine Le Pen has vowed that her National Rally party would immediately pass a vote of no confidence if President Emmanuel Macron tries to form a left-wing government. After meeting with Macron at the Elysee Palace on Monday, National Rally (RN) leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella said they would seek […]
French Far-Left Threatens to Impeach Macron if Socialist Not Made PM
France’s far-left leaders have warned they will condemn President Emmanuel Macron for an “institutional coup against democracy” over his refusal so far to nominate a leftist as the next prime minister. Now that the “Olympic truce” has ended, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Mathilde Pannot, former and current leaders of the far-left French party Insubordinate France (LFI), […]