French President Emmanuel Macron’s gamble to call snap parliamentary elections is backfiring as a rival party, the far-right National Rally (RN), made significant gains in the first round of voting. Redmond Shannon explains how France’s centrist and left-wing parties are scrambling to prevent the RN from forming government.
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