Thirty-nine National Rally candidates have already been elected to
parliament after winning over 50 percent of first-round votes -- a tour
de force by a movement that never before managed to win a parliamentary
seat in the first round of voting of a two-stage election before.
They include the party's longtime leader Marine Le Pen and party vice-president Sebastien Chenu. ...
Among the losers was Communist Party leader, Fabien Roussel, who lost his seat to an RN candidate in a constituency that had been held by the Communists for over 60 years. ...
The party's [NR's] worst scores were in Paris, where all its candidates were eliminated in the first round.
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