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Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Assembly, strongly urged her voters on Sunday evening to persevere. They will have to re-emerge next Sunday, in the second round of the French parliamentary elections. Because then the RN candidate, Jordan Bardella, “could be appointed prime minister by Emmanuel Macron”. It would be the first time that the right-wing nationalist party has appointed a prime minister.
According to early forecasts, Le Pen and Bardella’s party won 34 percent of the vote on Sunday: significantly more than the 18.5 percent in the elections to the National Assembly, the French House of Representatives, in 2022. RN It has never been so big. This shows that the French taboo against a right-wing extremist…