President Emmanuel Macron called for the snap elections three weeks ago.
France's President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with supporters after voting in the first round of parliamentary elections outside a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France, on June 30, 2024.Together with its allies, it rallied close to 11 million French voters, totaling 33.2% of the vote, bringing it closer to being able to form a government after next week's second round of voting.
Former president of the French far-right Rassemblement National parliamentary group Marine Le Pen gives a speech during the results evening of the first round of the parliamentary elections in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, on June 30, 2024., celebrated this victory by attacking President Macron and speaking of the "willingness to turn the page after 7 years of contemptuous and corrosive power.
This would stop long-range SCALP missile deliveries to Kyiv as well as put an end to Macron's promise to send French military instructors to Ukraine. The question remains whether the level of funding for Ukraine would change under an RN government.Bardella recently said that Russia was a "multidimensional threat to both France and Europe," trying to distance himself from the party's historically pro-Russia stance.
In some local elections, three or four candidates have made it to the second round, which means the left-wing coalition is now pulling out candidates who arrived in third place, in order to block seats for the far-right.
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