Rival parties engage in frantic bargaining and tactical voting plans after National Rally wins first round
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France’s left and centrist parties are scrambling to cobble together a united front after Marine Le Pen’s resounding victory in the first round of snap parliamentary elections on Sunday brought her far-right, anti-immigration party a step closer to power.
Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) and its allies on the right finished first with 33% of the vote, followed by the leftwing New Popular Front alliance (NFP) with 28%, while President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc came third with 20% of the vote.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/french-left-centrists-scramble-unite-against-far-right-election-runoff
Author : Angelique Chrisafis in Paris, Sam Jones and agencies
Publish date : 2024-07-01 13:54:31
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