 There'll be hundreds of run-offs that will decide whether the national rally, the former National Front, a party long considered beyond the pale here, can win enough seats to actually form a government. Well, over the past week, candidates from the left-wing alliance, a new one called the New Popular Front, and the Macron centrists have been making pats, turning what should be a three-way into a two-way contest tomorrow to try and squeeze the radical rights chance of an outright parliamentary majority. It needs 289 seats in the National Assembly for that.