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If you're thoroughly sick and tired of politics, well, tough, or should that be paddichance? Because we're

off to France to examine some pretty shocking results there. President Emmanuel Macron called a

snap election just over three weeks ago to plenty of criticism from even his own colleagues.

And they, frankly, looked to have a point when in the first round, the far-right

Rézain-Bron-N-RAL, R&N, or National Rally, took a commanding lead. Headed by

Marine Le Pen and her young protege, Jordan Bardella, they had been expected to build on that

initial success. Bardella even tipped to be the country's next prime minister. Yet in the end, RN came third, behind Macron's liberal coalition in second,

but in first place, a hastily assembled group of communists, greens and socialists

designed to thwart the far right, the new popular front.

And leading the most radical part of that coalition,

a man many see as France's answer to Jeremy Corbyn, Jean-Luc Melanchon. So why has France seemingly

bucked the lurch to the populist right seen in other parts of Europe? What happens now,

with no party or group with enough seats for a majority?

And just who is, Jean-Ut Melanchon?

I'm Neil Patterson.

Welcome to the Sky News Daily.

Our Europe correspondent is Adam Parsons and he joins us from Paris.

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