French left coalition comes out on top in elections, in shock upset over far right

PARIS — After the shock of French President Emmanuel Macron's choice to call snap races last month, one more amazement came for French citizens as surveys shut Sunday night: the extreme right Public Party (RN) didn't get most of the parliamentary seats surveyors had anticipated. It didn't come close.

With elector turnout at its most noteworthy rate in over 40 years, beginning evaluations recommended most of the seats would go to the New Well known Front (NFP), a left-wing alliance that immediately united together only days after Macron reported that regulative races would occur.