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French Election: Far-Right claim big victory in first round of voting | BBC News

Marine Le Pen’s far-Right National Rally party has won a major victory in the first round of French parliamentary elections.

Exit polls place the party on course to win around 34% of the vote, well ahead of their centre and left rivals.

The French President Emmanuel Macron political gamble in calling the snap election has spectacularly backfired. His Ensemble centrist alliance has suffered badly, expected to come third with around 20% of the vote. France’s left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front, had a stronger showing of around 28% according to the exit polls.

Celebrating her party's success, Marine Le Pen said "democracy has spoken" as she declared that President Emmanuel Macron's camp had been “practically wiped out”.

France now faces a second round of voting and the possibility of a far-Right government coming to power. However political rivals are already calling for an alliance against the National Rally. Left and centre party candidates who came third are expected to withdraw from the second round, in the hope of depriving Marine Le Pen’s party of power.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Andrew Harding.

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    • It’s only an “issue” for racists who can’t accept change. Like it or not, non-white people are now part of the very fabric of Europe, and we live in a multicultural melting pot. If people would open their eyes, they would see the blessings of mass immigration and the free movement of living, breathing human beings.

      I don’t discriminate by the colour of people’s skin. I don’t throw bacon at pregnant Muslim women, because I’m not insane.

    • yes, this is the main problem, i confirm. It has been for several decades. Along with the ultra liberal capitalism. I have a hard time saying what should be adressed first.

    • I am from California and Paris was worse than in San Francisco it smelled like urine and poverty..
      It was a disappointment..
      If the Right doesn’t stand up for the French..France will be history..
      Like UK

    • Only way to curb immigration is to make the places they’re coming from habitable, by preventing climate catastrophe and the wars that are causing mass migration in the first place. The moneyed interests don’t want that though, because they make a ton of cash from conflict, and if they can pin all the country’s ills on migrants instead, and give the people someone else to direct their ire towards, then they can keep picking all our pockets. The true villains are, as always, the ultra-rich.

  1. I lived in Paris during the migrant crisis, a man was beheaded in the street where I worked. It’s truly madness what they have done to France. Mass migration has failed and citizens want to feel safe in their countries again, and to put first. Thank GOD Marine Le Pen is doing well.

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