France is toast, just like the UK.Quote:
National Rally has come third in the second round of voting in France's parliamentary election - according to exit polls.
Marine Le Pen's far-right party was being tipped to emerge as the dominant force in French politics following President Emmanuel Macron's decision to hold a snap poll.
But the left-wing New Popular Front coalition won the most seats in the second voting round of parliamentary elections, according to the polls.
An IFOP estimate for broadcaster TF1 said the New Popular Front (NFP) could win 180-215 seats in parliament in the second voting round, while an Ipsos poll for France TV projected 172-215 seats for the left-wing bloc.
President Emmanuel Macron's centrist group was said to be narrowly ahead of National Rally (RN).
After RN emerged from the first round of parliamentary voting as the leading party, centrist and leftist parties agreed to withdraw 221 candidates, including 83 from President Macron's camp and 132 from the NFP, in order to avoid three-way run-offs.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, who leads left wing party France Unbowed - part of the NFP - said the exit projections were an "immense relief for a majority of people in our country".
"We saved the Republic," he said, adding: "The New Popular Front is ready to govern.
This is what happens when one allowed mass immigration from counties which hate you.
French far-left activists cerebrate and wave Palestinian flags after exit polls revealed a leftwing alliance of communists and socialists beat Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in the French parliamentary elections.
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