Polling station workers begin counting ballots during the second round of the legislative elections, Sunday, July 7, 2024 in Schiltgheim, eastern France. Voting is underway in mainland France on Sunday in pivotal runoff elections that could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally and its inward-looking, anti-immigrant vision, or produce a hung parliament and political deadlock. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)