It appears that Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party will not come close to winning an absolute majority of seats in Sunday’s French legislative election. That doesn’t mean that France has stemmed the populist tide or has a clear path forward to a workable government.
National Rally finished first in last week’s first round of voting, taking 33.5 percent of the vote. It or its allies lead in 297 of the nation’s 577 districts, slightly more than half of the total. If France were America, with only one round of voting, National Rally’s Jordan Bardella would become prime minister.
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