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Frances political parties sought to build a united front aimed at blocking the path to government of Marine Le Pens far-right National Rally (RN) on Monday, after it made historic gains to win the first round of a parliamentary election...
The RN and its allies won Sundays round with 33% of the vote, followed by a left-wing bloc with 28% and well ahead of President Emmanuel Macrons broad alliance of centrists, who scored just 22%, official results showed...
While financial markets rallied on relief the RN tally was not greater, it was still a huge setback for Macron, who had called the snap election after his ticket was trounced by the RN in the European Parliament election last month...
Leaders of both the left-wing New Popular Front and Macrons centrist alliance indicated on Sunday night they would withdraw their own candidates in districts where another candidate was better placed to beat the RN in next Sundays run-off...
However it was not clear whether such a pact would always apply if the left-wing candidate was from the far-left France Unbowed (LFI) party of Jean-Luc Melenchon, one of the main members of the New Popular Front..
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