the 28-year-old at the gates of power Jordan bardella could soon be France’s youngest prime minister and it’s first from the far right the national rally party leader says he needs to win an absolute majority of seats in next Sunday’s second round National Assembly vote to prevent what he calls the existential danger of the alternative a potential government led by an alliance spanning from the center left to socialists and Communists it finished second to the National rally in Sunday’s first round the leftist grouping beat Emanuel macron’s centrists into third hundreds of writings are set for three-way runoff votes next Sunday but typically at this point moderate and left-wing parties tactically withdraw candidates to prevent a farri victory at the moment the leftist Coalition has called for a all the anti-national rally forces to Rally together uh but it’s not the same on the maon camp there has been many ambiguities and macron has denounced extremes on both sides the king makers could be the diminished center right Republicans already divided on what to do the party’s leader was kicked out last month for trying to make a deal with the far right I would imagine that some of them be tempted to enter in a coalition with the National Valley possibly under the pretext that they might be able to moderate them from the inside from Paris to Rome and Berlin the rise of the far right is a European Trend that is not going away with increasing discontent about immigration across the continent it’s already clear macron’s snap election bet against the national rally has failed whatever happens Sunday the Centrist president will now likely face three years of working with a prime minister with whom he has little in common Redmond Channon Global News London
The fate of France’s political leadership is in limbo, as French President Emmanuel Macron’s gamble to call snap parliamentary elections is backfiring.
A rival party, the Far-right National Rally (RN), has made significant gains in the first round of voting.
Global’s Redmond Shannon explains how France’s centrist and left-wing parties are scrambling to prevent the RN from forming government.
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