Martine Aubry Articles

The French Socialists’ choice of the centrist François Hollande shows a new seriousness about winning next year’s presidential election, say Michael McTernan and Antoine Colombani Since 1988, when François Mitterrand was re-elected, the Parti Socialiste has failed in...

Months of speculation, anticipation and hard campaigning drew to a close on Sunday as François Hollande was elected the French Socialist party’s presidential candidate. Having gained over 56 per cent of the 2.5 million turnout for the second round of the ‘citizens’...

There is an almost comic – or perhaps tragic – disparity between the fate of Refounding Labour and the ‘citizens’ primary’ held over the last two weekends which chose Francois Hollande as the Socialist party’s candidate to challenge Nicolas Sarkozy in next year’s...

Two elections on continental Europe yesterday have exposed the deepening self-imposed isolation of the British Conservative government from developments in Europe. In Poland, the ruling Civic Platform government won  a clear victory, thus becoming the first Polish...