As France’s hard-right National Rally take the lead in the first round of the country’s parliamentary elections, will the political spectrum unite to stop them taking over or could next week see the first hard-government since the Second World War?

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Is the hard-right about to take power in France?

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Is the hard-right about to take power in France?