A new week of frenetic campaigning will start in France on Monday, a day after the far-right National Rally party dominated the first round of legislative elections that attracted an unusually high number of voters and dealt a stinging blow to President Emmanuel Macron.
The nationalist, anti-immigrant National Rally party was in the lead in nationwide legislative election for the first time in its history, with about 34 percent of the vote.
If a new majority of lawmakers opposed to Mr. Macron is ushered in, he will be forced to appoint a political adversary as prime minister, dramatically shifting France's domestic policy and muddling its foreign policy.
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