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France faces political gridlock after shock election result

London | France faces fresh political uncertainty, with an intractable hung parliament carved up between three blocs, after a shock election result on Monday AEST that pushed Marine Le Pen’s right-wing populist National Rally party into third place.

President Emmanuel Macron – whose own coalition of centrist parties did better than expected in the second round of the snap parliamentary election – has succeeded in his risky ploy to thwart National Rally’s surge. But he now has to fend off the vote-topping forces of the populist left to avoid political paralysis.

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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.

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