Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally, casts vote in first round of elections
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s resurgent National Rally, has voted in the first round of surprise legislative elections called for after her far-right party trounced French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists in European elections. Macron, a deeply unpopular president, decided to dissolve parliament in a huge gamble that could result in the French far right leading a government for the first time since World War II. Two rounds of voting will determine who will be prime minister and which party controls France’s lower house.