As NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has reported, Le Pen has called the sanctions on Russia "silly" and has promised to lift them. Cyril, an engineer from Paris, said: "There is so much immigration that we are losing our identity. Some 20 percent of French voters identify with the extreme right or left, compared to 7 percent in the European Union as a whole. Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been in politics for decades, making it to the second round of France’s presidential elections in 2002 — where he lost by the widest margin in the country’s history to Jacques Chirac. Macron's immediate challenge will be to secure a majority in next month's parliamentary election for En Marche!
Voters in France return to the polls for a run-off, to elect either Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen as the new President of France.