Far-right National Rally leads first voting round of French parliament elections, exit polls show

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00:00And this is the political landscape. The winners in the first round, 34% it is the

00:07far-right alliance, almost bang on what the polls were suggesting. Second place

00:11the left-wing alliance of the New Popular Front, 28.1%. There we're

00:17looking at third place Emmanuel Macron's alliance, Together Party, 20%. That is a

00:25trouncing. This is a bad night for Emmanuel Macron in the first round. Then

00:28we move to the Republicans, who have kind of fallen apart after all the

00:32dominance of the Fifth Republic, 10%. A slight increase on last time,

00:37unaffiliated left-wing, 1.8%. Let's look at the smaller results as well. In fact,

00:42we'll get those in a short while.

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