France in chaos
Last night the final exit polls of the French election were revealed to a collective stunned gasp.
The far-right RN party of Marine Le Pen - and Jordan Bardella - is in third place.
Macron's centrist grouping is in second place - but the dominant bloc emerging is a collective of radical left parties - with the controversial figurehead of Jean-Luc Melenchon at its helm. Macron's PM has stayed on -for now - as caretaker.
But there is a collective political fog over the shape of France’s next parliament. Has Macron's gamble paid off? Macron will argue he kept fascism at bay - but for how long?…
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