Le Pen: Huge gains in French parliament a ‘seismic event’

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen addresses reporters in Henin-Beaumont, northern France (AP)

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said her party’s extraordinary surge in the country’s parliamentary election is a “historic victory” and a “seismic event” in French politics.

Many voters in Sunday’s poll opted for far-right or far-left candidates, denying President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance a straight majority in the National Assembly.