A high turnout in Sunday's first round saw RN comfortably win first place with 33.1% of the vote... The hastily assembled New Popular Front (NPF), combining the forces of the left, scored 28%.
Mr Macron thus appears to have blown up his power base in parliament, transformed himself into the lamest of lame duck presidents, and handed Ms Le Pen's youthful protege, Jordan Bardella, a decent chance of becoming France's next prime minister.
During the current election campaign, Mr Bardella has begun to row back on big spending commitments that would spook the markets... Plans to exclude dual nationals from sensitive professions testify to a political project that seeks to marginalize and stigmatize French-bo.
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