Voters in France’s overseas territories kick off pivotal parliamentary election

Voters in France’s overseas territories and living abroad have started casting ballots in parliamentary run-off elections that could hand an unprecedented victory to the nationalist far right.

Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration party National Rally came out on top of first-round voting last Sunday, followed by a coalition of centre-left, hard-left and green parties – with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance a distant third.