President Emmanuel Macron and far-right rival Marine Le Pen will battle for the presidency in a repeat of their 2017 run-off, but the results of the first round show changing dynamics in French polit…
France has never had a woman as president. With a number of female candidates in the election race this time, could that finally change? Challenges range from a "Me Too" campaign to an "invisible" barrier to the top job.
Republicans in France nominated their first woman presidential candidate in a primary that sharpened the focus of the challenge facing Emmanuel Macron.
PARIS: There are three female candidates preparing for the French presidential election scheduled for next April in France. The socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, the president of the far-right National Rally, Marine Le Pen, and the spokesperson for the far-left Workers’ Struggle party, Nathalie Arthaud. A fourth candidate, Valerie Pecresse, president of the Regional