The Kremlin is following the election results in France “very closely”, a spokesman said Monday, after the first round of a snap vote where the far-right National Rally (RN) party won a resounding victory. “The preferences of French voters are more or less clear to us,” said spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The far-right National Rally (RN) party of Marine Le Pen appeared to win a resounding victory in the first round of the polls, with Macron’s centrists trailing in third behind a left-wing coalition. But the key suspense ahead of the second round on July 7 was whether the RN would win an absolute ma…