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The new French Prime Minister heads to the presidential palace for a working meeting with President Emmanuel Macron, after receiving former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal for the Macronist group and conservative leaders, Laurent Wauquiez, Bruno Retailleau and the President of the Senate, Gerard Larcher. IMAGES
People wait at London's St Pancras International after several Eurostar trains between Paris and London were cancelled due to a massive sabotage attack on France's high-speed rail network, according to the company. IMAGES
French voters in Montreal head to the polls for the second round of a high-stakes legislative election, with the far right expected to gain its biggest-ever presence in parliament. On Friday, final opinion polls predicted that Marine Le Pen's National Rally would fall short of winning an outright majority, with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance emerging with half the deputies it had before his gamble in calling the snap election. IMAGES
Images of French ministers after the last Cabinet meeting before Sunday's second round of the legislative elections, in which the president's majority was eroded in the first round. IMAGES
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, elected in the first round of the French general election in her fiefdom of Pas-de-Calais, leaves the RN headquarters in Paris at the end of a meeting of her party's executive committee. (COMPLETES VIDI36273P6_EN) IMAGES
Cars arrive on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore in Paris, where the presidential palace is located, as French President Emmanuel Macron summons his ministers at 12:00 to discuss tactical withdrawals ahead of the second round of the general election, the day after the historic victory of the far-right National Rally (RN), which won 39 MPs in the first round and remains in a position to win an absolute majority in parliament. IMAGES