French left and centrists scramble to unite against far right for election runoff

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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