 In France, a second round of voting, the more left and center parties combined their powers to prevent the far-right National Rally Party from taking a majority in Parliament. A week early, the RN, as it's known in France, had the plurality of leading candidates going into the runoff. But as BBC's Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield points out, some of those left and centrist candidates dropped out of the race to prevent vote splitting. And that gave the more liberal candidates more seats.