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Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Risk of far right gaining power has not gone away, warns French Green leader

Marine Tondelier wearing a green jacket sat on a large red chair
Marine Tondelier, the leader of France’s Green party, said the election result was ‘a warning’. Photograph: Ed Alcock/MYOP/The Guardian

The French Green leader, Marine Tondelier, has said the risk of the far right rising to power in France has not disappeared after the snap election, and politics must urgently change to regain voters’ trust.

“It was a warning,” Tondelier said of this month’s election, where a spectacular rush of tactical voting in the final round held back Marine Le Pen’s far-right, anti-immigration National Rally. The RN’s first-round surge had brought it the closest it had ever been to a parliament majority and entering government.

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