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Gerard Filoche, former candidate for the 2017 French Socialist Party (PS) presidential primary, posing in Paris, September 19, 2016. (AFP/JOEL SAGET)
November 22, 2017, 1:52 am
Top French Socialist booted from party over anti-Semitic tweet
Gerard Filoche kicked out after ‘negligent’ post showing Macron wearing Nazi armband and featuring anti-Jewish slur
By AFP
Gerard Filoche, former candidate for the 2017 French Socialist Party (PS) presidential primary, posing in Paris, September 19, 2016. (AFP/JOEL SAGET)
November 20, 2017, 10:58 pm
French Socialist lawmaker faces ouster over ‘anti-Semitic’ tweet
Gerard Filoche apologizes for posting image of President Macron with motifs suggesting Jewish control, but defends depiction of ‘cabal’
By JTA
French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen delivers a speech in Henin-Beaumont, April 23, 2017. (AFP/joel SAGET)
April 25, 2017, 3:41 am
France’s steely Le Pen courts right in presidential runoff
Daughter of anti-Semitic provocateur, candidate has widened her party’s appeal to voters once too timid for the extreme right
By Elaine Ganley
National Front leader Marine Le Pen addressing activists at the Espace Francois Mitterrand in Henin Beaumont, France, April 23, 2017. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images/JTA)
April 25, 2017, 3:28 am
Why Marine Le Pen is confident she will be France’s next president
Macron’s victory in 1st round of elections has many assuming he will handily win the next stage, but things may not be so simple
By Cnaan Liphshiz
French presidential election candidate Emmanuel Macron rat the Parc des Expositions in Paris, on April 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Eric Feferberg)
April 24, 2017, 5:38 pm
France’s mainstream unites for Macron as Le Pen reaches for outsiders
Establishment candidates rejected by voters rally around centrist; far-right party plans to woo those who backed far-leftist
By Sylvie Corbet and Elaine Ganley
Winner of the right-wing primaries ahead of France's 2017 presidential elections Benoit Hamon (R) smiles next to defeated candidate Manuel Valls (L) following the announcement of the results of the second round of the left primaries ahead of France's 2017 presidential elections, at the Solferino Party Socialist's headquarters in Paris on January 29, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Eric FEFERBERG)
January 30, 2017, 12:47 am
French left nominates Benoit Hamon for president
Former minister handily beats ex-PM Manuel Valls in runoff to be ruling party’s candidate in spring election
By John Leicester and Sylvie Corbet
Former French prime minister Manuel Valls on January 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Bertrand Guay)
January 29, 2017, 7:27 pm
Valls vs. Hamon in French Socialists’ presidential primary
With elections drawing near, voters choosing candidate to become new face of ruling party as Hollande steps down
By John Leicester
French former minister and candidate for the left-wing primaries, Benoit Hamon, arrives to deliver a speech at his campaign headquarters after the first round of the left-wing primary for the 2017 French presidential election, on January 22, 2017 in central Paris. (Bertrand Guay/AFP)
January 23, 2017, 4:08 am
Outsider, ex-PM to vie for French left-wing presidential nod
Facing a surging far-right, France’s left splinters as staunch leftist Hamon beats establishmentarian Valls in first round of primary
By Guy JACKSON and Gina DOGGETT
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