The first round was a referendum on Emmanuel Macron. The second round was framed as a decision on the hard right, and the French clearly came out against.
Paris | The champagne had been laid out along with the “petits fours” and Marine Le Pen’s troops were in a buoyant mood at National Rally campaign headquarters in Paris after the first round of snap elections in which they came out way in front.
Polls had suggested for the past week that they would repeat that performance in Sunday’s run-off, perhaps winning an outright majority of 289 out of 577 seats and crowning 28-year-old Jordan Bardella prime minister.
