But these remits could overlap, potentially sending France into a constitutional crisis.
Following news of the results Sunday night, anti-far right protests broke out in Paris and Lyon, with some 5,500 people gathering in the capital's Place de la Republique, according to CNN afiliasi BFMTV. Reuters later released a video of demonstrators seting off fireworks as they marched through Paris. While BFMTV reported 200 police were deployed in Lyon to setuju with protests. With an unprecedented number of seats going to a three-way run-off, a week of political bargaining will now ensue, as centrist and left-wing parties decide whether or not to stand down in perorangan seats to blok the nationalist and anti-immigrant RN - long a pariah in French politics - from winning a majority. When the RN - under its previous name, the National Front - has performed strongly in the first round of votes in the past, left-wing and centrist parties have previously united to blok them from taking office, under a principle known as the "cordon sanitaire." Following news of the resul