French presidential election 2012
France's Sarkozy in custody over Libyan funding probe
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been called in for questioning by investigators looking into suspected Libyan financing of his 2007 election campaign, officials in…
Sarkozy to face trial over 2012 campaign funding
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is to face trial over the allegedly fraudulent financing of his doomed 2012 bid for re-election, a legal source told AFP on Tuesday.
France opens inquiry into Fillon’s wife
French investigators on Wednesday launched a preliminary probe into claims the wife of presidential candidate Francois Fillon earned 500,000 euros ($538,000) for a suspected fake…
Hamon selling ‘dreams’ to left-wing voters, says Valls
Socialist presidential hopeful Benoît Hamon’s idealist vision for France squared off against calls for pragmatism from former prime minister Manuel Valls as the two men debated…
A French Corbyn? The rise of Benoît Hamon
A leftist dissident, Benoît Hamon has emerged as an unlikely frontrunner for the Socialist presidential nomination as the battered and fractured ruling party scrambles to stay…
Sarkozy's 'mea culpa': A gambit for the 2017 election?
Three and a half years after his defeat in the 2012 presidential elections and with little more than a year to go before the next elections, French opposition leader and former…
Sarkozy: 'I can’t believe I made such a faux pas'
FRENCH PAPERS - Fri. 22.01.16: Right-wing paper Le Figaro has an exclusive sneak peak at former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s tell-all book, which comes out on Monday. In "La…
François Hollande, two years on
It's two years to the day since François Hollande became French president - we take a look at his efforts to turn around his extremely low approval ratings with an interview on…
Sarkozy vows to 'mobilise' over campaign finance row
Ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy urged supporters to "mobilise" on Friday, a day after France's Constitutional Council said Sarkozy had exceeded legal spending limits in the 2012…
