 Those two camps have cooperated to keep the hard right group from controlling parliament. The centrist or the leftist candidates agreed to drop out of the runoff so as not to split the anti-far right vote. But many French voters consider the fringe left party, France, unbowed to also be a danger to democracy. It's been accused of stoking anti-Semitism in its criticism of Israel. The new French parliament is likely to have much stronger far left and far right extremes.