PARIS — The champagne was on ice at the far-right National Rally's (RN) headquarters, but the celebratory mood swiftly turned to disbelief when the first projected results from the July 7 parliamentary election appeared on TV screens.
For days, Marine Le Pen had confidently predicted that her party would triumph with an outright majority.PARIS — The champagne was on ice at the far-right National Rally's headquarters, but the celebratory mood swiftly turned to disbelief when the first projected results from the July 7 parliamentary election appeared on TV screens.
The projected result brought to a shuddering halt what had appeared to be the far right's relentless rise in France, carefully engineered by Le Pen, who had sought to clean up her party's image and tap the grievances of voters angry over living costs, strained public services, and immigration. Le Pen and Bardella attributed their party's setback to what he called the "disgraceful alliance" of anti-RN forces, whom he said had caricatured the party and disrespected its voters.
"I thought it was strange that they said that," said Kersauson, who lost his race against a pro-Macron candidate. "It seemed like something that was very hard to achieve."
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