With odds as wide as 20/1, Benoit Hamon is seen as a long-shot to win the race for the Elysee Palace. The Socialist candidate's radical manifesto caught the imagination of party members and secured ...

PARIS — The official implosion of France’s Socialist Party started Tuesday morning. Less than two days after its sympathizers voted in the party’s primary to choose radical Benoît Hamon as their ...

It's become a familiar theme in Western center-left parties in recent years; the firebrand leftist challenger taking on the moderate party establishment for a leadership role. There was Jeremy ...

A left-wing politician in France who handily defeated Prime Minister Manuel Valls in the Socialist presidential primaries was endorsed by the founders of the country’s Anti-Zionist Party. Benoit Hamon ...

PARIS — Former French education minister Benoît Hamon could barely deliver his victory speech Sunday for all the joyful hooting from his supporters after he nabbed the Socialists’ presidential ...

Benoît Hamon is unlikely to make it into the final round of the French presidential election next month. But his candidacy has been a breath of fresh air for French socialists after François ...

A new paradigm Hamon’s praise for the current leader of the UK's Labour Party gave Valls – an admirer of the New Labour-style politics abhorred by Corbyn – a stronger line of attack. When Hamon ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Benoît Hamon was passionate. “The left, it’s everything that I am. It is my life,” the Socialist party ...

France’s ruling Socialist Party appears headed for an historic drubbing. Crowned the mainstream left’s presidential nominee in January, Benoît Hamon could fail to clear even single digit support in ...

Two of the most left-leaning candidates in France’s presidential election are in talks to join forces, in what would be the latest twist in a turbulent race for the Élysée Palace. “We are having ...