France’s Far Right Leads in First Round of Snap Elections. What Happens Next?
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French voters went to the polls on Sunday for the first round of snap legislative elections. For the first time, a victory for the far right is looking like a credible prospect — an extraordinary turnaround for a party that until 2022 held only a handful of seats in parliament. The far-right National Rally has topped the polls with a score of more than 33% of the first-round vote (compared with 18.