The French on Sunday (7 July) sent one clear message: they don’t want to be governed by the far-right.
The Green-Left alliance surprised everyone, including the pollsters, to become the largest bloc in the French parliament while Marine Le Pen's hard-right National Rally came only third, behind president Emmanuel Macron's centrist coalition.
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Emma Sofia Dedorson is a Paris-based journalist covering politics, culture and society in France, Spain and Italy.