JEAN-MARIE LE PEN

An ambitious 27-year-old has been elected to replace Marine Le Pen as president of France's main far-right party National Rally.

French President Emmanuel Macron has decried his Nazi-collaborator predecessors and vigorously vowed to stamp out Holocaust denial.

Voters are choosing between two visions of France and two very different people in Sunday's presidential runoff.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny waded into France’s tight presidential campaign, urging voters to back incumbent Emmanuel Macron in Sunday's runoff and alleging that far-right challenger Marine Le Pen is too closely linked to Russia.

Paris prosecutors are studying a report by the EU fraud agency accusing French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of misusing public funds while serving in the European Parliament.

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.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is facing stinging criticism for making her party too mainstream, dulling its extremist edge, and ignoring grassroots members.

President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party was decimated in this weekend’s regional elections and Marine Le Pen’s far-right party failed.

Mainstream candidates have delivered a stinging setback to the anti-immigration far right in regional elections in France.

Marine Le Pen’s once-ascendant far-right party is struggling ahead of runoff elections for France's regional leadership.