PoliticsFrench presidential candidates clash in first debate ahead of election

Seven of France’s leading presidential candidates faced off Thursday in their first debate, less than eight months before the increasingly tight and crowded 2027 election to choose Emmanuel Macron’s successor. Macron, the centrist incumbent, has completed the maximum two consecutive terms.

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