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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lola Christina Alao

What happened in France's parliamentary election? Left-wing New Popular Front alliance takes the lead

Violence has broken out in France as a Left-wing coalition won the most seats in the parliamentary elections, beating Marine Le Pen’s far-Right National Rally, which came third.

Footage showed masked protesters on the streets with flares and around 30,000 riot police were deployed.

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