The French will go to the polls on Sunday in the second and final round of snap parliamentary elections, after the far right secured a resounding success in the first vote a week ago. The polls have tightened in recent days, with voter surveys suggesting that Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) and its far-right allies will fall short of an absolute majority in the 577-seat National Assembly. President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist forces and their leftist rivals have scrambled to try and block Le Pen’s camp by standing down more than 200 of their own candidates to avoid splitting the vote. Macro…