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Added on the 13/06/2022 15:02:23 - Copyright : France 24 EN
On the last day of official campaigning for the first round of France's parliamentary elections, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne campaigns at a market in Vire, a town in the Normandy region, in the constituency of Calvados where Borne is running. IMAGES
Left-leaning lawmakers, who have defected to rob President Emmanuel Macron's party of its outright majority in France's National Assembly, make their first appearance as "Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity" (EDS). Seventeen members of Macron's La Republique En Marche (LREM) party formed the new group to pursue greener policies, "modernise" the political system, and reduce social inequalities. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom after the Paris court of appeal lightened a one-year prison sentence for the former French president over illegal campaign financing, saying he needed to spend only half that time behind bars. But while lighter than the original sentence, Wednesday's ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called for. IMAGES
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Paris courthouse to hear the verdict of the appeal trial in the 'Bygmalion' case. Sarkozy was previously sentenced to a year in prison for illegal financing of his 2012 presidential campaign. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy is back at Paris Court House this Friday to answer questions in his appeal trial about illegal campaign financing during his 2012 failed re-election bid. The Former head of state was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in 2021 in what has been dubbed the "Bygmalion case". Conservative Sarkozy has faced a litany of legal problems since his one term in office from 2007 until 2012, and has been charged separately with corruption, bribery, influence-peddling, and breaking campaign financing laws. IMAGES
A rally against anti-Semitism organised by French far-left party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) is disrupted by demonstrators carrying signs reading "Touche pas à la mémoire" ("Don't touch our remembrance"), in criticism of party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's stance on recent events. The protest took place near the site of the former Vél d'Hiv in Paris, where Jews were infamously rounded up and detained during the second World War before being sent to camps. IMAGES