'Ultimate threat': French centrists, leftists drop out of 200 races to block far right path to power

French President Emmanuel Macron called for snap legislative polls immediately after his camp received a thrashing in European polls. Yet his gamble appears to have backfired dramatically, with the far-right National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen scoring a historic victory in the first round with more than 10.6 million votes. Faced with the prospect of the far right taking power in France for the first time since the country's occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II, Macron's camp and the left...