At least 200 candidates withdraw before second round of voting – France election live
More than 110 are members of left-wing New Popular Front with more than 70 from Macron camp
The National Rally’s Jordan Bardella is debating on social media with France’s economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, about the far right’s plan to scrap nationality rights for children born and raised in France by foreign parents.
Gabriel Attal, the prime minister and a Macron ally, said that “from the first round, we made the choice in more than sixty constituencies not to present a candidate.”