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Paris — Voters in France go to the polls Sunday for the first of two rounds of an election to select 577 members of the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament. The snap elections were called by President Emmanuel Macron on June 9 after his ruling Renaissance party performed poorly in elections for the European Parliament, which governs the 27-nation European Union snip... Opinion polls ahead of the first round showed the far-right grouping of parties led by Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) firmly in the lead, predicted to win 36% of the vote. Polls indicate the far-right...

At least 289 seats are needed for a parliamentary majority, and National Rally is predicted to get between 260 and 295 seats. The latest poll suggests that the far right has around 36 percent of the vote as France prepares for the parliamentary elections, the first round of which is on Sunday. The second round will be held on the following Sunday, 7 July. If National Rally wins, France will have the first far-right government since it was occupied by the Nazis in the Second World War.