Benoît Hamon est un homme politique français, ancien candidat socialiste à la présidence de la République. Il est né à Saint-Renan dans le Finistère le 26 juin 1967. Il s’engage en politique à 19 ans ...

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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 hard-left underdog candidate looks likely to win the presidential nomination for France's Socialist party in a primary race this week, after he won the first round of the primary on Sunday. Benoit ...

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 ...

PARIS—Candidates from opposing wings of France’s Socialist Party emerged as the top two vote-getters in the first round of the country’s leftist primary, reflecting the divisions hobbling the party’s ...

Reporting from Paris — He is a radical left-winger often described as a Gallic Bernie Sanders, and was viewed as a complete political outsider just three weeks ago. Benoit Hamon handily won France’s ...

Benoit Hamon clinched the socialist nomination for this year’s French presidential election Sunday, securing victory over former Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Hamon won with 58.9 percent of the vote, ...

In January, Benoît Hamon, the far-left politician, beat out former Prime Minister Manuel Valls to lead the French Socialist Party’s ticket in next month’s presidential contest, but you wouldn’t know ...

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 ...

Benoît Hamon naît le 26 juin 1967 à Saint-Renan dans le Finistère. Il passe son enfance à Brest, puis à Dakar où son père, ingénieur à la Direction des constructions navales, est muté. De retour en ...