Marine Le Pen's RN scored historic gains to win last Sunday's first-round vote
PARIS – France holds a parliamentary run-off election on Sunday that will reconfigure the political landscape, with opinion polls forecasting the far-right National Rally will win the most votes but likely fall short of a majority.
Polls suggest the RN will become the dominant legislative force, but fail to reach the 289-seat majority that Le Pen and her 28-year-old protégé Jordan Bardella believe would allow them to claim the prime minister's job and drag France sharply rightward. "France is on the cliff-edge and we don't know if we're going to jump," he told France Inter radio last week.
Such an outcome would risk policy paralysis until Macron's presidency ends in 2027, when Le Pen is expected to launch her fourth bid for France's top job.Macron stunned the country and angered many of his political allies and supporters when he called the snap election after a humbling by the RN in last month's European parliamentary vote, hoping to wrong-foot his rivals in a legislative election.
An RN majority would force Macron into an awkward "cohabitation" with Bardella as prime minister, with thorny constitutional tussles and questions on the international stage about who really speaks for France.
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