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00:00Jordan Bardella took to the stage with a tense look on his face.
00:04His party, the National Rally, had fallen behind both the new Popular Front Left Alliance
00:09and the President's Centre Coalition.
00:11His goal of securing at least a relative majority in the French election had slipped away.
00:17The alliance of dishonour and electoral arrangements made by Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal,
00:25together with extreme left parties, have deprived the French people of political reforms that
00:32they had largely asked for, by putting us first in the European elections and in last
00:38week's first round, with almost 34% of ballots in our favour.
00:43But while it failed to finish first, it was still a history-making day for the far-right
00:48party.
00:49The National Rally claimed 125 seats, the highest of any single party in the French
00:54National Assembly, and 143 including its allies.
00:58It was also their highest score on record, up from 89 in the previous term.
01:03Marine Le Pen remained determined.
01:07But of course the party will play the role it has always played, defending France and
01:11the French people, defending the ideas for which we were elected, because we are once
01:16again the only united and coherent group in the National Assembly.
01:21The party was up against the Republican front, made up of the left and centre alliances,
01:26who called for anything but the National Rally, a call to which millions of voters showed
01:31up in force for, to the resentment of the party's supporters.
01:36The French were like beavers, blocking out the National Rally.
01:39And that's a shame, because they didn't vote for ideas, they voted against ideas.
01:45Now the staunchest of the National Rally's supporters will be eagerly awaiting the 2027