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Polster's survey predictions after the second round of voting in France's

parliamentary elections suggests that a hastily formed leftist alliance has won the most seats.

Unexpectedly the Hardwright National Rally is predicted to finish in third place

just behind President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble Party.

The new popular front is projected to get 171 to 187 seats out of 577 on an unusually high turnout.

No block will have an outright majority

heralding a period of political horse trading and instability.

A fifth Democrat legislation. and instability.

A fifth Democrat legislator, Angie Craig, a congresswoman from Minnesota, called on President Joe Biden to step aside,

suggesting that his television interview on Friday had failed to quell an

uprising in his party. During it, Mr Biden struck a defiant tone. House Democrat leader Hakim Jeffries

reportedly scheduled a virtual meeting on Sunday

with senior House Democrats

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