Mr. Fillon, a former prime minister who pledged to limit immigration and control Islam, handily defeated Alain Juppé in a Republican Party runoff. By Adam Nossiter François Fillon’s promises to limit ...

Alain Juppe’s chances of becoming France’s next president appeared a lot more likely a week ago. The 71-year-old had been tipped to win the Republican Party’s first-round presidential nominations – ...

Former French Prime Minister Alain Juppe attends the Fondation Chirac Prize ceremony at Quai Branly Museum in Paris, France, November 23, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Mori/Pool PARIS (Reuters) - Former ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A senior politician from embattled French presidential candidate ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Former prime minister Alain Juppe has widened his lead over rival Nicolas Sarkozy to win the center-right's nomination for France's 2017 presidential elections, an opinion poll ...

Francois Fillon won France's first-ever conservative presidential primary Sunday after promising drastic free-market reforms and a crackdown on immigration and Islamic extremism, beating a more ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Former prime minister Alain Juppe joined the race to be the presidential candidate of France's centre-right on Wednesday, posing a potential challenge both to a 2017 comeback bid by ...

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy came in third, which ended a political comeback attempt France’s first Republican presidential primary has ended in a surprising runoff between two former prime ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. French conservative voters were choosing their candidate on Sunday in a ...

BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - At a rally on Alain Juppe's home ground in Bordeaux last week, a group of supporters tried to get the crowd clapping and chanting before the conservative presidential ...

On Friday, former Prime Minister Alain Juppé, the favorite in the right-wing Les Républicains (LR) party primaries for the 2017 presidential elections, spoke to Le Monde to declare his concern over ...