French elections: Far right only party capable of majority, warns PM Attal

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal urges voters to stop Marine Le Pen's party winning Sunday's vote.

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The party led the first round last Sunday with more than 33% of the vote and has already won dozens of seats outright. If it secures more than half the 577 seats in the National Assembly, it will be be able to form a government.

"There's one bloc in a position to win an absolute majority, and that's the far right," Mr Attal told French radio.

Many French voters would not enjoy using their vote to block RN, he said, but "I consider it's our responsibility to do it".

The second round of a French parliamentary is generally made up largely of run-off duels between the top two candidates in a constituency, but because so many third-placed candidates qualified on Sunday, that set up more than 300 three-way run-offs.

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