Emmanuel Macron

Jun

27

2022

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French Legislative Elections 2022 : A Flash Report

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialEmmanuel Macron, France, Jean Luc Mélenchon, Legislative elections 2022, Marine Le Pen

Multidimension desk Written by: Parshi Barua Photo: Shutterstock.com In the legislative elections, the French voters elect 577 representatives to sit in the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament, for 5 years, which forms the legislative power with the upper house, The Senate. These two control the government and they propose, study et vote bills to make laws. The first round of legislative elections took place on June 12, 2022. Polling stations were open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (8 p.m. in major cities). The rate of abstention was all time high at 52.49% compared to 51.29%…

May

13

2022

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French Presidential Elections 2022 : Towards A New Era Of Political Cohabitation?

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialEmmanuel Macron, France, French Presidential Election 2022, Jean Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen

From Director's Desk: Written by: Jayanta Chakrabarty Photo: Shutterstock.com The first round of 2022 presidential elections took place on April 10. There were twelve candidates in the contest including the current president Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Eric Zemmour, Yannick Jadot, Valérie Pécresse, Jean Lassalle, Fabien Roussel, Anne Hidalgo, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Philippe Poutou and Nathalie Arthaud. The results were announced at 8 pm. Emmanuel Macron topped the list with 27.84% of votes, Marine Le Pen came second with 23.15% of votes followed closely by Jean-Luc Mélanchon with 21.95% of votes. After the announcement of the results, Jean-Luc Mélenchon…

Oct

30

2021

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French Presidential Elections in 2022 : A Perspective Report

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialEmmanuel Macron, Eric Zemmour, France, Jean Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen, Presidential Elections 2022

Written by : Rabbani Khan Photo credit : Shutterstock.com Still unknown a few months before the 2017 presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron emerged victorious by crushing Marine le Pen in the second round. His arrival as the head of the State has allowed him to write a new story in French politics. Indeed, he managed to break out of the "right or left" political divide and establish himself as someone "neither right nor left". Manuel Valls, former prime minister of the left, Jean Yves le Drian, former minister of the left, Jean Paul Delevoye, former minister of the right, Alain Madelin,…

Feb

28

2021

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Is The Anti-Separatism Bill Of France Anti-Islam? – A Brief Report

Current Affairs, Politics & SocialAnti-separatism bill, Emmanuel Macron, France, Islamism, Jean Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen

Compiled by : Rabbani Khan Photo : Shutterstock.com On 16 February 2021, the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, adopted the controversial anti-separatism bill by 347 votes in favour, 151 against and 65 abstaining, thus facilitating the way for it to be passed into law in coming months. The text was presented to the Council of Ministers on 9 December 2020 by Gérald Darmanin, the Home Minister, and by Marlène Schiappa, Minister Delegate to the Home Minister in charge of Citizenship, exactly 115 years after the law on the separation of churches and state came into force.…

Jul

18

2018

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Heroes and A Tale of Migration – Part 4

Column, PopularEmmanuel Macron, Good Samaritan, Immigrants, Islamic State, Lampedusa, Spider-Man, Syria

From Director’s Desk Written By: Jayanta Chakrabarty Multidimension Illustration : Avijit Ghosh The island of Lampedusa has an area of 20.2 square kilometers and a population of about 6,000 people. Its main industries are fishing and tourism. By May 2011, as the Arab Spring was in full swing, more than 35,000 immigrants arrived in the island from Tunisia and Libya. By the end of August, 48,000 arrived. Most of them were young males in their 20s and 30s, and the large majority of them were Muslims. Italy had repeatedly requested aid from the EU to manage this large number of…