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AFP Boosts Fact-Checking Ahead of 2027 French Election
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In Short: AFP announced plans to bolster its fact-checking efforts for the 2027 French presidential election, dedicating a team to verify information throughout the campaign period.
AFP announced plans to bolster its fact-checking efforts for the 2027 French presidential election, dedicating a team to verify information throughout the campaign period.
The news agency's extensive network, spanning 22 bureaux across mainland France and its overseas territories, will be supplemented by its global reach in 260 cities, enabling comprehensive coverage of French citizens voting abroad and the election's international implications.
According to Jacques Delors Centre Senior Policy Fellow Yann Wernert, France is heading into a pivotal election year, with the far right leading polls and the potential for significant constitutional changes.
Le Monde highlighted the historical context of the far right's claims to the French nation, noting that while the concept was born during the French Revolution, the far right has increasingly claimed it since the late 20th century.
The BBC also noted that the French passion for protest is legendary, with recent large-scale protests and riots reflecting ongoing political and economic tensions.
Ariel Kendel, CEO of Qualita, an umbrella organization representing French immigrants in Israel, told Ynetnews that up to 50,000 French Jews may consider immigrating to Israel due to growing political unrest, antisemitism, and economic uncertainty.
Florian Philippot, leader of the French Patriots party, called on President Emmanuel Macron to resign amid ongoing protests and unrest, as reported by Azernews.
The Jacques Delors Centre emphasized that a far-right victory would require not only winning the presidential election but also legislative elections and a referendum to implement sweeping constitutional changes.
With less than six months to go before the first round of the presidential election, some candidates are offering demagogic or incomplete proposals, while others have none at all, according to Le Monde.
Marine Le Pen launched her fourth bid for the presidency on Sunday, urging 'French patriots' to support her far-right National Rally, as reported by DW.
Background
A key national pro-life group said it plans to spend $160 million in the 2026 midterm elections and the 2028 presidential election cycles to elect its preferred candidates.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro are set to face off in a runoff election after neither candidate secured an outright majority in the first round.
What's confirmed
- The result was announced on Saturday, the opening day of the party's two-day congress in Orléans, as the RN seeks to consolidate its position ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
- PARIS — Jordan Bardella, a key ally of French far-right presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen, on Tuesday said allegations that he made antisemitic comments in 2013 marked part of a “total war” against their party ahead of the 2027 polls.
- "The government is trembling and it's right to tremble because when the French people are angry, they never let up," Ryad Rani, the head of the LSU high school student representative body, told journalists in Paris.
- The French president said some leaders were influenced by fake videos generated by artificial intelligence about the unrest President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday criticised world leaders for making “stupid” comments about the rioting on the sidelines of protests in France, in an apparent swipe at US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- “The Russian hybrid threat against Europeans and against France has intensified,” Macron said after meeting French political leaders ahead of next year’s election and before traveling to the U.N. General Assembly next week.
- Florian Philippot, leader of the French Patriots party and a candidate in France’s presidential election, has called on President Emmanuel Macron to resign amid protests, clashes with police and unrest across the country.
- Clean up begins after French riots but police remain Suspect arrested after historic town hall set alight - French media Katya Adler: France divided over who to blame for riots and what to learn from them In pictures: French landmarks damaged and destroyed by violent protesters Katya Adler: France's government under pressure after weekend of widespread violence "We had people claiming that we had been invaded by hordes of migrants and Islamists, which is completely false."
- Le Pen is positioning her party as more capable than centrist or left-wing forces ahead of the presidential election in April 2027.
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- The gilets jaunes (yellow vests) demonstrated against cost-of-living hikes for over a year from 2018 - becoming one of the longest-lived protest movements in French history.
- Social unrest, government borrowing costs at eye-watering highs, a deeply divided French parliament and an apparent revolving door of exasperated French prime ministers - six prime ministers over the last five years - all claiming to want to reduce their country's public debt.
- Is France at breaking-point - and what does this all mean for the eurozone currency the French are such a huge part of?
- He called for a 'break with Macronism' and an end to 'Jean-Luc Mélenchon's dominance over the left,' while insisting the main opponent remained 'the far right.' Published on October 12, 2026, at 11:09 am (Paris), updated on October 14, 2026, at 11:51 am Sandrine Cassini Robin Richardot Although the concept of the nation was born during the French Revolution, the far right has claimed it since the end of the 20th century.
- Spain goes to the polls for a snap election on November 29.
- Although changes to the education system were introduced in the wake of May 1968, the centre-right went onto win a majority in the June parliamentary elections in a wave of support for General Charles de Gaulle, rather than in support of the protesters’ cause.
- With just months to go before elections to replace President Emmanuel Macron, French authorities had been hoping that the protests would start to ease ahead of half-term holidays to start at the end of the week.
- PARIS: Police and protesters clashed in Paris and other French cities on Saturday on the sidelines of nationwide marches against soaring inflation.
- With a far-right candidate leading the polls, all eyes are on the presidential elections in the EU’s second largest economy and founding member state.