How our French election shock could shake up the country's economy.

Hello, I'm Leanna Byrne and this is the Marketplace Morning Report and we are coming to you live from the BBC World Service.

This morning, Europe's second largest economy, France,

awoke to an unexpected result in the second round of its general election.

That was the reaction of activists in a Paris youth center after projections

showed the far-right national rally had failed to win a majority.

It had been the largest party after first round

voting but today the left-wing coalition the new popular front has most seats

while President Macron's Center Alliance came second.

Here's the reaction from voters in the city of Lyon.

I'm very happy that the right didn't win because it was really dangerous for us.

It's not the end, because there is a lot of people who vote right.

Since right now the left seems to be a bit ahead. I'm kind hopeful.

Left wing and centrist candidates had agreed a tactical voting pack to push national rally into third place.

Its leader Jordan Baldel called it an alliance of dishonor that kept his party from power.

Tonight I say this very seriously, depriving millions of French people from the

possibility will never be a viable destiny for France. Now no one political

block has enough seats to form a government so what's next and that's ask the BBC's Chris Bachman in Toulouse hello

Good morning to you Chris the last time we were speaking about this election on this program the far right

national rallies party seemed to be doing really well what changed and how did it

change I wonder if in the space of a week a lot of people got cold feet. The far right

seems to have made some very big mistakes in the past week. One of them was when

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