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The National Rally hit a big blow: by forming a parliamentary group in the Senate for the first time on Sunday, the Lepenist party achieved a significant success in the presidential campaign, disrupting the historical domination of the right in the upper chamber.
The three parties forming the outgoing government coalition in Morocco dominated the legislative elections of Wednesday, 23 September, but a turnout of 38%, at the lowest level in nearly 20 years, and an increase of Islamists. The explanation of Karim Yahiaoui, correspondent France 24 in Casablanca.
On the eve of the legislative elections in Morocco, young people remain far away from the polls and political parties, despite the alarm signal launched a year ago by the Gen Z212 movement, which demanded more social justice, employment and fair access to public services. Field reporting
In Morocco, this Wednesday, nearly 16 million voters are expected to nominate the 395 deputies of the House of Representatives, the first step towards the formation of a new government for the next five years. Young people make up a limited proportion of the electorate: 15 per cent of registered voters are between 25 and 34 years of age and 4 per cent between 18 and 24 years of age. Partly reflecting the demographic structure of the country.
In the regional elections of 20 September in the German region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, false testimonies probably generated by IA made it appear that there were ballots without mention of the extreme right party Alternative für Deutschland. In Berlin, where an election was also being held, another false sequence made it appear that AfD ballots were being destroyed.
The extreme right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is victorious on Sunday 20 September in regional elections in the Land of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the north-east of the country, while the radical left party, Die Linke, won a separate election in the capital Berlin. Both elections resulted in heavy losses for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Anne Salles, a lecturer in German studies at Sorbonne University, was the guest of FRANCE 24.
In northeastern Germany, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Chancellor Merz's Conservative party, the CDU, was eliminated from the assembly, failing to achieve the elimination score of 5%, a first for a regional state in the country's history since 1945. The anti-migrant and pro-Russian party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), came first with about 38% of the votes, although a left alliance seems to be in a better position to form the regional executive.
The extreme right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the elections on Sunday 20 September in the Land of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the north-eastern part of the country, although it was its worst election result since 1949, called "desaster" by Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The Left Party (Die Linke, radical left) is also at the head of a separate election in the capital, Berlin.
In Russia, Vladimir Putin's party won, unsurprisingly, a large majority in the legislative elections of Sunday, September 20, marked by computer hacking and Ukrainian drone attacks to which Moscow promised a response.
The German regional elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin both marked the defeat of the same party: Friedrich Merz's CDU. After the recent shock caused by the wide-ranging victory of the far right in Saxony-Anhalt, already analysed as a failure of the Chancellor's policy, can Friedrich Merz survive these two new setbacks?
Nearly four million German voters are called to the polls on Sunday for two regional elections where the progress of the far-right AfD party and the radical left could cause further turmoil in Berlin and affect Chancellor Friedrich Merz, already very fragile. We're talking to our columnist Antoine Mariotti.
Will German Chancellor Friedrich Merz survive Sunday's regional elections? The debate was opened after the recent electoral failure of its Conservative party in Saxony-Anhalt, where the far right achieved an overwhelming victory.
The polling stations closed in Germany, where two regional elections were held on Sunday, 20 September. Our correspondent Caroline du Bled evokes the first results with us, and Antoine Mariotti analyses them.
The voting operations in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (north-east) must take place until 18:00 (16:00 GMT), when the first estimates must be published. Our correspondent Caroline Du Bled is in front of the polling stations.
Two Länder vote in Germany this 20 September. Among the list leaders, Elif Eralp, who made the rent cap his main battle horse.
The Germans went to the polls on Sunday in two regional elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania where the progress of the far right and the radical left could undermine the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, at the bottom of the polls.
Russia suffered a massive drone attack on Sunday morning, denounced by the authorities as trying to "disturb" the parliamentary elections, the first since the start of the large-scale offensive against Ukraine in 2022. These laws, which are also taking place in the territories of Ukraine occupied and annexed by Russia, should unsurprisingly lead to the victory of Vladimir Putin's party. Follow our direct.
From 18 to 20 September, the Russians voted to elect their deputies, governors and municipal councillors. As always, the vote is locked. What is behind the calls for Vladimir Putin's mobilisation and the boycotts of the debates by the candidates? Decryption of a fraud that also involves propaganda.
The parliamentary elections start this Friday 18 September in Russia. The European Union has denounced elections taking place in a climate of "systematic and institutionalized repression" while a body of Russian opponents to the Council of Europe has called the election "simulacre". The details of Éléna Volochine, journalist and former correspondent France 24 in Moscow.
Press coverage this Friday, September 18, the parliamentary elections in Russia, the Trump administration accused of war crimes, and speculation around the first list of the French team's selector, Zinedine Zidane.
