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Rival parties race to block far right as France heads into legislative run-off

Cards marked "Législatives 2024" from the first round of parliamentary elections on June 30, 2024. © Ludovic Marin, AFP

France is headed into a second and final round of voting on July 7 after the far right came out ahead in a first round on Sunday, sending centrist and leftist parties scrambling to keep it from securing a majority. FRANCE 24 looks at some of the possibilities that lie ahead. 

French voters face a decisive choice on July 7 in the run-off of snap parliamentary elections that could see the country’s first far-right government since the Nazi occupation during World War II or no majority emerging at all.

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