🔴 Live: Macon begins campaigning for next round, reaction to results pour in

Demonstrators raise their arms as they gather to protest against the French far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally - RN) party, at the Place de la Republique in Paris. © REUTERS/Abdul Saboor

French President Emmanuel Macron and his allies were on Monday beginning a week of intense campaigning ahead of the second round of legislative elections to prevent the far right from taking an absolute majority and control of government in a historic first. But the key suspense ahead of the second round on July 7 was whether the RN would win an absolute majority in the new National Assembly, enabling it to form a government and make Le Pen's protege Jordan Bardella, 28, prime minister.

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