FRANCE is set to hold what is seen as its most consequential election in decades. Voting will take place in two stages, on June 30 and July 7, to decide the composition of the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament. Current polling gives a decisive edge to the far right National Rally (RN), with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Ensemble coalition placed a distant third. Macron called for snap polls after his party received a drubbing in the European Parliament elections earlier this month. RN won more than 31% of the French vote, double that of Macron’s centrists...