President Emmanuel Macron has lost his gamble. The National Rally of Marine Le Pen has more than trebled its tally of deputies in the assemblee nationale to just over 290: an absolute majority. France's next government will be far right.
RN has the momentum, and Macron is on the ropes. Early polls suggest the party could win up to 265 seats. Three possible outcomes of Macron's shocking snap election.
Across huge swaths of France, RN is now booking record high scores in almost every segment of the population. For a great many voters, it's just a party like any other.
Even a near majority would give RN considerably more influence, forcing the president to seek almost impossible alliances, in a far more hostile and fractured parliament, to form a government vulnerable to no-confidence votes.
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