Le Pen Seeks Majority as Rival Groups Team Up to Stop Her
- Other parties maneuver to block National Rally in runoffs
- Voters will return to polling stations for second round Sunday
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is scrambling to get an absolute majority in the final round of France’s legislative election Sunday as rival parties are maneuvering to keep the far-right party out of power.
President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist group and the broad, left-wing New Popular Front alliance have pulled their candidates out of 215 runoffs with more than two candidates to avoid splitting the vote against the far right, according to a count by Le Monde newspaper.