INTERVIEW: Dr Romain Fathi provides analysis of the parliamentary elections in France

Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party has been declared the winner of the first round of votes in France's parliamentary elections. Dr Romain Fathi is a Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian National University and an affiliated researcher at the Centre for History at Sciences Po in Paris. He spoke to SBS's Penry Buckley from Paris about what the results mean for the government of President Emmanuel Macron after his early election gamble.