France’s Far Right Leads in First Round of Snap Elections. What Happens Next?
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.