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On 30 June, thousands of left-wing protesters gathered at the Place de la République in Paris to protest the results of the first round of the 2024 legislative election where National Rally held the largest number of votes. The New Popular Front distributed flags to protesters bearing the colors of the alliance.
17 (including 9 right-wing protesters) The 6 February 1934 crisis (also known as the Veterans' Riot [ 1 ] ) was an anti-parliamentarist street demonstration in Paris, organized by multiple far-right leagues that culminated in a riot on the Place de la Concorde , near the building used for the French National Assembly .
The far-right (French: Extrême droite) tradition in France finds its origins in the Third Republic with Boulangism and the Dreyfus affair.In the 1880s, General Georges Boulanger, called "General Revenge" (Général Revanche), championed demands for military revenge against Imperial Germany as retribution for the defeat and fall of the Second French Empire during the Franco-Prussian War (1870 ...
PARIS (Reuters) -Thousands marched in Paris and cities across France on Saturday to protest against the far-right National Rally (RN) ahead of upcoming elections to the French parliament.
The online page started by Jean Messiha, an independent right-wing populist and former adviser to presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, has attracted donations from over 52,000 people, while a ...
PARIS (Reuters) -Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) party scored historic gains to win the first round of France's parliamentary election on Sunday, exit polls showed, but the final ...
2007–09: 2007–09 university protests in France, protest movements resulting from several reform projects under Minister for Higher Education and Research Valérie Pécresse. 2009: 2009 French riots, a series of riots that occurred on Bastille Day (14 July) in the commune of Montreuil, an eastern suburb area of Paris.
The party's ideological roots can be traced to both Poujadism, a populist, small business tax protest movement founded in 1953 by Pierre Poujade and on right-wing dismay over the decision by French President Charles de Gaulle to abandon his promise of holding on to the colony of French Algeria, (many frontistes, including Le Pen, were part of ...