Leftist and centrist parties in France are attempting to join forces to stop Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally party from taking power.

Last Sunday, National Rally won 34% of the vote; the left-wing New Popular Front won 28.12%, and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party, the Ensemble Coalition, won 20% of the vote. A second vote will be taken on Sunday.

“The second round of a French parliamentary is generally made up largely of run-off duels between the top two candidates in a constituency, but because so many third-placed candidates qualified on Sunday, that set up more than 300 three-way run-offs,” the BBC noted.  That would make it easier for a candidate from Le Pen’s party to win.

Thus, at least 200 candidates from the centrist and leftist parties — 134 from the Left and 82 from Macron’s party, according to Le Monde — have withdrawn from the race so that in their constituencies, Le Pen’s party will see their candidate running against only one opponent, the one thought to have the best chance of winning.

After the election last Sunday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the head of the hard-Left party France Unbowed (which joined a coalition with the New Popular Front) and has refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization, advised any of his candidates who had finished third to withdraw, Politico reported.

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, aligned with Macron, echoed the message, saying, “In such circumstances, France deserves that we not hesitate.”

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But some centrists who strongly oppose the hard-Left would not countenance supporting them in order to defeat the National Rally party because of their penchant for spending and their opposition to supporting the state of Israel in its war against Hamas. “Senior figures like Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and former prime minister Edouard Philippe – both originally from the center-right – are refusing to issue instructions to vote systematically against the RN,” the BBC reported.

On Tuesday, Le Pen also accused Macron of a “administrative coup d’état” after being apprised that he was getting ready to make important appointments in the police and army.

“When you want to counter the results of an election by nominating your people to jobs, and when that stops [the government] from being able to carry out policies which the French people have asked for … I call that an administrative coup d’état. … I hope it is only rumor,” she said.

First lady Jill Biden and convicted felon Hunter Biden are reportedly “dead set” on not letting President Joe Biden drop out from the 2024 presidential race.

Politico reported that some in the Biden family, including his sister, Valerie, have started expressing concerns about the toll the remainder of the campaign will have on the 81-year-old’s health.

“First lady Jill Biden and the president’s son Hunter Biden are dead-set on the campaign going forward,” the report said.

Hunter Biden has started to attend official White House meetings even as he waits to be sentenced after being convicted on multiple felony weapons charges, faces additional criminal trials, and remains under criminal investigation.

The president has often referred to his son, an admitted drug addict who has a history of using prostitutes and belonging to sex clubs, as the “smartest guy I know.” Hunter Biden fathered a child with a stripper while he hooked up with his deceased brother’s wife.

Jill Biden’s ex-husband, Bill Stevenson, slammed her in an interview over the weekend with the New York Post, saying that she has turned into “a completely different woman.”

Stevenson previously said that Jill’s relationship with Joe began as an affair that they had while he was still married to her.

“I just don’t understand why she is so adamant about defending him and keeping him in the race since it appears that he’s struggling,” Stevenson said. “It appears that he’s struggling with everybody these days.”

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Top presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said earlier this year that Jill Biden was a power-hungry woman who is doing the opposite of what many first ladies have done: encouraged their husbands to not run for re-election.

“She likes power. She wants to stay. She wants some sense of revenge,” he said. “She teaches in Virginia Community College. This milieu around our building here, this is her home. And the idea of relinquishing it all after you’ve taken the slings and arrows of the last years of attacks, and at the last minute, just when you get all the delegates you’re going to say, I’m going to open it up to a bunch of people — it’s very childish when you read those kind of reports.”