(22 Jun 2017) On April 16th 2017 hundreds of people gathered at a rally in Paris, later clashing with police as they protested against what one demonstrator called the "putrid extreme-right ideas" of Marine Le Pen's National Front.
The protest started in north-east suburb of Aubervilliers and then moved into Paris where the clashes took place.
Le Pen, who is one of the leading candidates in upcoming presidential elections, will hold a meeting in Paris on April 17th.
She is one of five main candidates who will compete in the April 23 first-round vote, with the top two vote-getters moving on to the presidential run-off on May 7th.
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Troublemakers on the sidelines of a Paris union march onMay 1st clashed with police and threw firebombs at a row of motorcycles, setting one on fire.
The May Day march turned violent less than a week before the run-off French presidential election.
A few hundred protesters started throwing gasoline bombs and other objects at police at the front end of what started as a peaceful union march in the French capital.
Police responded with tear gas and truncheons.
The annual march to celebrate workers' rights this year included calls to block far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen from winning the presidency during a runoff election on Sunday.
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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen cast her vote in the presidential election in the northern town of Henin-Beaumont on May 7th.
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France's President-elect Emmanuel Macron arrived at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris where he will formally take power during a ceremony on May 14th.
Incumbent Francois Hollande welcomed him in the courtyard in front of hundreds of journalists.
Macron takes charge of a nation that, when Britain leaves the European Union in 2019, will become the EU's only member with nuclear weapons and a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
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New French President Emmanuel Macron says he will do everything that is necessary to fight terrorism and authoritarianism and to resolve the world's migration crisis.
Following his inauguration at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 14th, Macron waved to crowds on the Champs Elysee as he drove by in a convoy.
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France's newly-announced Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, moved into his new offices on May 15th, meeting at the Matignon palace with its previous occupant, his predecessor, Bernard Cazeneuve.
Earlier French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Philippe, a relatively unknown 46-year-old lawmaker, as prime minister, making good on campaign promises to repopulate French politics with new faces.
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French President Emmanuel Macron held the first meeting of his new cabinet a day after he brought several little-known figures into his government as part of a reshuffle after corruption scandals started tarnishing his young cabinet.
Macron had planned to rearrange the government after his centrist party won a majority in parliamentary elections on June18th.
He was forced to make more changes than expected because four ministers facing investigations announced this week they would step down.
Macron's office announced that Florence Parly, a former executive and budget official, would become the new defence minister after the previous defence chief, Sylvie Goulard, the highest ranking woman in the five-week-old government, stepped down.
Macron also named Nicole Belloubet, a member of the Constitutional Court, as justice minister after her predecessor, Francois Bayrou, was forced to quit earlier in the day.
Bayrou, who was leading Macron's crusade to purify politics, was forced to quit over corruption allegations.
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