‘Not one more vote’: Reactions as France’s far right wins snap election

Marine Le Pen, French far-right leader of National Rally party, delivers a speech after partial results in the first round of the French parliamentary election in Henin-Beaumont, France [Yves Herman/Reuters]

Marine Le Pen and her far-right National Rally (RN) have won big in France’s snap election, garnering reactions from domestic rival parties and politicians abroad.

The RN won close to 34 percent of the vote in the first round of the parliamentary election in what was a major victory – but not one that gives the party an absolute majority in the parliament.