 Most seats are unlikely to be determined till the second round of voting in a week's time. Mr Macron called the snap vote after his party was heavily defeated by national rally in recent European elections. The head of Austria's far-right Freedom Party, Herbert Kickl, has announced a new political alliance with the party of Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, and with the former Czech Prime Minister, Andrzej Babiš. Bethany Bell reports.