The first round of elections to the National Assembly have put Marine Le Pen’s nationalists in front, opening the way to Jordan Bardella becoming prime minister.
In a shocking first round of voting for the French National Assembly, the anti-immigration National Rally party, led by Marine Le Pen,
A Bardella victory would mark the first far-right leadership in France since the Vichy regime during WWII, a period when France, under Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval, collaborated with Nazi Germany., appears to have backfired. His centrist Renaissance party garnered only 21%, trailing the left-wing New Popular Front, which secured 29%. With high voter turnout over 65%, the significance of this election is clear.
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