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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Is BBC Far Left?
The far left has not been politically relevant in the west for decades.
Is this a joke? Dident you know?
The “far left” is politically irrelevant and has been since the 70s.
no thats channel 4 ..theve so far been left out to dry after caught out …trying to stitich up reform uk
Globalist/nwo/WEF left.
Take your country back France. Ignore the “far right ” rhetoric.
She’s not only far right but rather fascist leaning. I guess people really don’t learn from history. Fear of the other is pushing people to make bad decisions.
Yes, ignore the far right rhetoric. Don’t listen to Le Pen.
LOL they literally are far right and proud of proud of it. Also surrendering into Russian control is not taking the country back.
@@ijumpjudyy 🙄
The French State Council itself classifies the RN as far-right.
REMEMBER CHARLIE HEBDO
The BBC and its brainwashed viewership have selective memories
Who?
@@ijumpjudyythat wasn’t even a decent attempt mate, I’m far more concerned with India’s neighbours anyway…the islamists
@@fireironthesecond2909a man beheaded on his own country’s soil because a Muslim thought he committed blasphemy
@@ijumpjudyythat sounds like CCP Propaganda
Defund the tv licence!!!
@ijumpjudyy India has the words dirtiest country and has a very weak military. Maybe India should spend their money on fixing the falling down streets and homes bloody cesspit and the world think the same😂
@@ijumpjudyy India’s biggest export is people!
@@ijumpjudyysuch an impressive superpower yet you can’t figure out how to turn off caps lock on your keyboard!!
Just don’t pay it.
@@collieman this is BBC though
‘Far right’, my arse…
Yes, your arse does appear to be quite far right.
What are they then if not far right fascists.
The rn is totally far right lol. It’s the party of le pem what do you need? Ss uniforms?
@@IZn0g0uDatAll their founder Pierre Bousquet was a literal Waffen SS.
They are a far right party. So is reform U.K. people like you are racist. Yet most of you are harmless, just uneducated and easily led.
BBC news reporting is just a joke these days
Then why bother watching BBC? 😂
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BBC same as CNN in the U.S.
@@lisafilly464 And ABC in Australia!
Don’t worry it wont be for much longer
Far right against far left propaganda is where we are now?
No such thing as far right. ?
@@ijumpjudyy I live in the UK and am so pleased to the hygienic, respectful and law abiding many thousands of people that have left your country and landed on us?.
Its not far right, it correct, absolutely right
@@geoffreymollart7311 it’s a bot u dumbas*. That too a Chinese bot.
@@risenshine2783🤢
Never heard british media say far left…
because we don’t have a far left, unfortunately. Too many neo-nazi druggies on their off road bike with machetes
Because the far left isn’t far from where they are
which parties are “far left” in the uk?
@@IsSalty I suppose the greens are about as far left as UK parties go, but even then they’re not as far left as Reform Ltd are far right.
They mention the far left every time the far left is relevant.
The BBCs favourite buzz word “far right” it doesn’t wash anymore with the masses.
Same with racist, xenophobe, transphobe, etc. Nobody cares what names evil lunatics call them anymore! And just yawn every time they throw out their pathetic labels.
No, it should be far right extremists, or terrorists
“Far-right is anyone we disagree with”
French wants to live like ruSSians, making $ 300 a month. Vive Le France!
@@collieman For a border collie you have really bad eye sight…. This is a BBC news story you spanner.
immigration is definitely the main issue in France
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.
Maybe they should stop colonizing Africa and no will come to their country, just a thought 🤔🤷♀️
France needs to be an open minded country and embrace tolerance, multiculturalism, multiracialism & multi-religious coexistence
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.
@@julia2k8 You are irrelevant and have no ground to tell us what we need.
Far Right, Far Right. Give it a rest. Why aren’t you showing the Far Left riots going on in Paris tonight.
Because people don’t want Nastys in power ever again. Get real and get out if you choose to be so ignorant and oblivious to history.
You didn’t notice the BBC station ident in the corner.
Three letters as a full explanation: B B C.
Because you’re talking shite
@@stevendimmock4791 Yes. Hence my question. More people should be asking them why. Or don’t people know whats going on cause they only watch BBC. I don’t.
The French are fed up with Macron.
He’ll be gone next term anyway, why does it matter
So vote the fascists, that sounds like an excellent plan. Certainly worked well in Amerikka, trump did such a great job. Idiots.
The entire Europe is
More fed up with the abduls
@@labouraredangerous Triggered. 🤡
“Far right” lol. This from the extreme mega left BBC.
If you think the BBC is in any way left wing it just proves how Right Wing you are.
@@StephenOxberrythe bbc is far left globalist
@@StephenOxberryccount 2 mnths old😂😂😂
@@StephenOxberryOooh rip a tissue Stephen 💁🏼😂
@@StephenOxberry😂😂 delusional. They are clearly left wing, as are SKY. Channel 4 are far left
Either solve immigration or the country is finished.
Stay strong French Patriots France WILL survive.😊😊
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.
You have hit the nail on the head, Alex! Immigration is killing the West including France.
Massive deportation!
I rather be a far right than far wrong.
👍
Amen to that
Based
So you want to be a nazi?
turns out you are both.
The more the BBC uses the term “far-right” the less credibility it has.
Even the far-left GB News calls the RN a far-right party… oh, wait..
Well it’s just the truth. Apparently for you the truth looses it’s credibility huh.
Concil state in france call rn far right. Period
@@Coltaire when world war three hits Europe, the “far right” will be the only survivors. Good luck muppet.
@@ColtaireWell, it’s not, but keep pretending that it is.
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.
And the major prob is that those foreigners criminal are even protected instead of a one way ticket to hell
@@sophie.sienna fake..liar..noone was beheaded in paris..any way bardella himself is the grand son.of aussi Algerian immigrant from kabyle…
Imagine protesting that someone won democratically.
The is the far left for you
If you think elections are Democratic and fair in the west, you’re one of the dumbest people in the country.
That’s the radical left as always
its funny because lefties will try to change the topic like “but the right do it too like with trump!”
@@bruh-bn3ni they can never make an argument without saying Trump. I wonder how they existed before Trump came.
“it’s only democracy if WE win”
Excellent comment succinctly put
Every policy that makes even the tiniest bit of sense is “Extreme Far Right”