French legislative elections: 5pm turnout at 61.4%, highest since 1981 • FRANCE 24 English

French voters turned out en masse Sunday for the second round of parliamentary elections, with turnout at 5pm, three hours before polls close, at its highest in four decades. Interior ministry figures showed 61.4 percent of the electorate had taken part in the poll, which is expected to leave Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) as the largest party in parliament. FRANCE 24's Antonia Kerrigan reports.
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