 The coalition includes the communist and ecologist parties and the far-left France Unbowed Party, whose leader is seen as increasingly radical. Four days ahead of the first round vote, polling puts the far-right party in the lead, followed by this leftist coalition. Macron's centrists are in third place. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris. On Wall Street, shares of Rivian soared after Volkswagen said it would invest several billion in the struggling electric car maker. This is NPR.