from RAIR Foundation:

According to exit polls, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) party scored historic gains in Sunday’s first round of France’s parliamentary election. The final outcome will be determined in next week’s run-off.

The RN secured around 34% of the vote, exit polls from Ipsos, Ifop, OpinionWay, and Elabe indicated. This is a significant setback for President Emmanuel Macron, who called the snap election after his party was trounced by the RN in European Parliament elections earlier this month. The RN’s share of the vote was comfortably ahead of leftist and centrist rivals, including Macron’s Together alliance, which garnered between 20.5% and 23%. The New Popular Front (NFP), a hastily assembled left-wing coalition, was projected to win around 29% of the vote.