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Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National has pledged to boost spending power, slash immigration and restore law and order.

Promise by Rassemblement National's Jordan Bardella, who aims to become prime minister in the election on 7 July, has drawn sharp criticism.

The French president has come under attack from both Right and Left over podcast comments ahead of election.

Ahead of impending election, French president said radical left France Unbowed and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally both pursued divisive policies that stoked tensions between communities.

Finance minister Bruno Le Maire said he feared for ' for order, for relations between citizens, for serenity, for civil peace'

About 200 women's rights groups and unions organised the marches in dozens of cities, including Paris, saying women's rights come under attack when countries are governed by far-right parties.

Christian Tein's lawyer says the pro-independence leader from the French Pacific territory will be sent to pre-trial detention in France, along with three other activists.

The new alliance plans to raise the monthly minimum wage to €1,600, impose price ceilings on essential foods, electricity, gas and petrol, repeal Macron’s deeply unpopular decision to raise the retirement age to 64 and invest massively in the green transition and public services.

The citizens of Amiens, the northern city where Emmanuel Macron famously spent his youth, do not appear to be particularly enamoured of its most famous son.

Residents in eastern city of Lyon say the country is at a dangerous juncture with a snap election after National Rally’s EU parliamentary gains.