National Rally lead the first round of France's parliamentary elections: Exit poll projections

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People in France have voted to elect 577 members of the country's National Assembly. Exit polls show that Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) party are ahead in the first round of France's parliamentary elections.

We now head into several days of horsetrading before next week's run-off.

According to exit polls, the RN won around 34% of the vote, which puts the party ahead of leftist and centrist rivals, including President Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble alliance, whose bloc won 20.5%-23%.