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French election: Left celebrates as far-Right faces surprise defeat | BBC News

France’s left-wing political coalition, the New Popular Front, is celebrating after exit polls in the second round of parliamentary elections predicted it was on course for victory.

France's far-right National Rally had been widely expected to win the election after leading in the first round of voting.

The snap election was called by a weakened President Macron, in response to a surge in support for the far-right party led by Marine Le Pen. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who was appointed by President Macron only seven months ago, has said he is planning to resign.

France is now heading for a hung parliament with no party expected to achieve an overall majority. The biggest group in the left-wing alliance is led by the radical socialist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who may now become Prime Minister.

Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Katya Adler and Andrew Harding.

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  1. The current left wing alliance consists of parties that didn’t have any history of working together so it would be interesting to see how they will be able to govern.

  2. The continual left and right classification of politics worldwide is so inaccurate.As an example, if someone believes in fair working conditions and a livable wage, they are labeled left wing. Those same people can run a business, believe in the principles of capitalism, but temper that belief with social principles. That does not make them socialists. Believing in Universal Healthcare does not equate to being anti capitalism. The Nordic countries mix the two ideologies extremely well, where their citizens enjoy a high standard of living, a social safety net, whilst still having a competitive capitalist society that rewards individual achievements and abilities to enrich those entrepreneurs, without leaving others destitute.

    • yeah sure mate, except the r@pe statistics in those same countries due to forced migration is where we are all drawing the line,
      in countries like sweden the police refuse to operate in large areas of entire cities, now label “black zones” or more politically correct “vulnerable areas”

      and those same welfare and socialcare services, just like in england with it’s now non-functional NHS, are now seeing these systems become bloated to the point of rot,

      people in these countries are no longer enjoying a high standard of living, maybe some are, but inflation is constant, the work environment increasingly more hostile to natives, and so on,

      the nordic countries only work whilst the system supports the amount of people it was intended to support, once you burden them like they have been they fail massively,
      the world is over 300 trillion in debt, inflation is rampant and these concepts are not holding under such pressure,

    • @@andrew300169 rhat is a concerning opinion to have, but not something someone like you will have to worry about,
      chances of you living to an old age are slim, so don’t worry about it, these problems will not affect you,

      but in reality, do you even know how many migrants the UK has taken since 1990? its close to 15 million,
      now use that appalling excuse you call a brain, and do the maths, can the system support another 15 million, and what impact does that have on natives?

      and this time, try to use more than a single sentence, your generation seems incapable of coherent thought,

  3. I am convinced that this is what happened in the UK with Labor and LibDems. They saw which of them had the lead in each district, and then didn’t compete against each other so they would beat the Tories. The Reform party did not make a deal with the Tories, and so in most districts siphoned off a lot of the conservative vote. The Reform party ended up with 16% of the overall vote, but only got 5 seats. The LibDems got like 9% of the vote, and got 61 seats.

    • Tha national rally won the popular vote by 10% more than the 2nd more popular. So yes they are the most popular and now have the most seat of any single party in France.

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