French election breakdown: Panic, last-minute deals and echoes of Vichy
Briefly

A lot has happened since then, including the first round of voting on Sunday, June 30th, which delivered the predicted but nonetheless shocking win for the far-right Rassemblement National.
In these elections though, the high turnout combined with a lack of candidates from smaller parties produced an unusually high number of triangulaires - more than 300 in fact.
The most effective way to block the rise of the far-right would be for the third-placed centrist or left candidates in a three-way race to withdraw in order to avoid splitting the anti-far-right vote.
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