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The first round of France’s 2024 legislative elections took place on June 30. The far-right National Rally and its allies won 33% of the vote, while the the left/progressive coalition New Popular Front took 28%. The alliance that supports President Emmanuel Macron was third, with 20%. The crucial second round of voting takes place this weekend. So how did France, the country where the declaration of human rights was published in 1789, come to favour a far-right party founded in 1972 by neo-Nazi sympathisers? Mathias Bernard, historian of France’s Fifth Republic, considers how France got to this potentially tragic moment in its history and what’s at
stake.
It is, of course, a year of hugely significant elections, and from the United States, Claire Wofford assesses the implications of Supreme Court’s decision to hand former president Donald Trump what she regards as the most favourable legal decision he could have reasonably hoped for in his fight against federal prosecution for his attempts to reverse the 2020 election outcome.
And with the UK heading to the polls on Thursday, we take a look the “six key types of voter that define modern Britain”.
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Mathias Bernard, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
After President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly, the first round of the snap legislative elections took place on June 30. Historian Mathias Bernard analyses what’s at stake.
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Claire B. Wofford, College of Charleston
The Supreme Court’s decision has major implications for the criminal prosecution of Trump and for the country and how it is governed.
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Bernard Steen, National Centre for Social Research
Navigating the 21st-century electoral map is not straightforward for political parties and the politicians asking for people’s votes.
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Svetlana Petriychuk on trial in Moscow.
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Julie Curtis, University of Oxford
It is the first time a playwright and director have been put on trial for a play in Russia.
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Chris Brierley, UCL; Hannah Woodward, Birkbeck, University of London
You can look up past and future climate changes in each area.
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XN Iraki, University of Nairobi
Kenya’s slow economic growth, large educated youth population and limited job opportunities are some of the factors that gave rise to the protests.
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Hannah Hoechner, University of East Anglia; Yagana Bukar, University of Maiduguri
Boko Haram leaders valued western education knowledge for the tactical advantages it offered.
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Jean-François Lapierre, Université de Montréal; Mathilde Bélair, Université de Montréal
The record-breaking and destructive forest fires of the summer of 2023 made headlines. But how did they affect the millions of lakes in the burned catchment areas?
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Konstantine Panegyres, The University of Melbourne
People in Ancient Greece and Rome were just as obsessed with falling in love as we are. And their romantic tribulations bring plenty of timeless advice.
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Susan Broomhall, Australian Catholic University
The subject of Prime Video’s new show My Lady Jane is England’s ‘nine day queen’. What do we know about her story?
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