Nigel Farage slams Marine Le Pen after first round French election win

Daily Express

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A high turnout in Sunday’s first round saw RN comfortably win first place with 33.1% of the vote, almost two points up compared with three weeks ago.
Guardian
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Led by Marine Le Pen and her young protege, Jordan Bardella, the RN looks set to take the biggest chunk of the 577-seat lower house having come away from the first round of voting with 33 percent of the vote, nearly double the 18.9 percent share it won in the last parliamentary elections in 2022.
Aljazeera
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It’s a stunning result that could see the far-right taking control of the government — and a far-right prime minister ahead of the Paris Olympics — if it wins big in the second round runoff July 7.
Voice Of America
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The hard-left has urged supporters of Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance to back them, while the French president has called on the public to vote for anyone except RN in a so-called 'Republican front' to 'block the far right'.
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