Will France See Drastic Change In Policy Under Jordan Bardella If Far-Right Wins Elections?

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France took a big step Sunday toward its first far-right government since World War II after Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration and eurosceptic National Rally party made gains in the first round of a parliamentary election. National Rally won 33.2% of the vote while a coalition of centre-left, greens and far-left parties known as New Popular Front came second with 27.9%. Meanwhile French President Emmanuel Macron’s alliance of political centrists, called Ensemble, came in third with 20.7%. In this episode of Decode, Zakka Jacob explains the ramification of the far-right winning the french election on the domestic and international affais.