by India Clarke | Apr 18, 2025 | Boston University
On the 31st March the leader of the French far-right party (The National Rally), Marine Le Pen, was banned from running in the 2027 presidential election. She was convicted of embezzlement of European Union funds in a French court, resulting in a five-year public...
by Tessa Crowley | Dec 9, 2024 | Brown University
For the past three decades, one article of clothing has captivated the attention of the fashion capital of the world: headscarves. From Marine Le Pen to Emmanuel Macron, no French politician has managed to escape the discussion of religious clothing in the public...
by Kaitlyn Hart | May 14, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
On April 24, French President Emmanuel Macron won the second round of the French presidential election, winning both a second term in office and a second campaign against rival Marine Le Pen. The French presidential election system consists of two parts; a first round...
by Akshay Yeddanapudi | May 12, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
With Emmanuel Macron’s 2022 electoral victory over Marine Le Pen, it might be tempting to view the current iteration of Fifth Republic politics as a continuation of the status quo of French democracy successfully resisting populistic sentiments. The reality, however,...
by Ella Shakin | Apr 22, 2022 | Boston University
Marine Le Pen’s populist-nationalist tactics, anti-immigration, and xenophobic sentiment could damage French democracy if she were to be elected in the April 24th runoff elections. As political scientist Joseph Schumpeter writes, the classical doctrine of...
