Macron aims to stop far right in vote runoff

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 02, 2024 12:09 am

(UPDATE) PARIS — France's President Emmanuel Macron and his allies were beginning on Monday a week of intense campaigning ahead of the second round of legislative elections to prevent the far right from taking an absolute majority and control of the West European country's government in a historic first.

The far-right National Rally (RN) party of Marine Le Pen won a resounding victory in the first round of the polls on Sunday, with Macron's centrists trailing in third behind a left-wing coalition.

STRUGGLE AHEAD France’s President Emmanuel Macron leaves a polling booth before casting his vote in the first round of parliamentary elections at a polling station in the town of Le Touquet, northern France, on June 30, 2024. AFP PHOTO

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