“French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance and the left-wing New Popular Front are weighing whether to pull candidates from the second round of the legislative election on Sunday to keep the ascendant far-right National Rally out of power,” Bloomberg reports.
“Marine Le Pen’s National Rally dominated the first round of voting Sunday, locking up 33.2% of the vote, according to interior ministry figures. The New Popular Front got 28% and Macron’s coalition got 20.8%. Markets rallied after National Rally recorded a smaller margin of victory than some polls had indicated and as mainstream parties began exploring ways to keep the far right from securing an absolute majority.”
New York Times: Four takeaways from France’s snap election.
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