France’s premier right-wing party won massively in the country’s first round of snap elections on Sunday, delivering a blow to President Emmanuel Macron’s liberal coalition.
The right-wing National Rally party won 33% of the votes in the parliamentary elections across France on Sunday, leaving Macron’s Renaissance party with only 21% of the votes, according to The Wall Street Journal. Though the elections won’t be finished until later this week, the National Rally’s initial win signals a major shift in the French population’s political priorities and a departure from Macron’s policies.
The second round of voting will take place on July 7. If the National Rally party wins more than 289 seats—the number required to take the absolute majority in Parliament—and shoves Macron’s Renaissance party out, it would significantly hamper Macron’s…
