(Bloomberg) -- Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally has strengthened its lead ahead of the first round of France’s snap legislative election on Sunday, according to Bloomberg’s poll of polls.

The party and its allies have risen by 0.3 point to 36.1% in Bloomberg’s composite. A leftist alliance called the New Popular Front, bringing together Socialists, Communists, Greens and the far-left France Unbowed, is second on 28.5%, down 0.2 point. President Emmanuel Macron’s group is trailing on 20.5%.

Macron dissolved the National Assembly earlier this month and called a snap legislative vote after his group was trounced in European Parliament elections. The first round will be held on June 30, with a second on July 7.

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While the two-step ballot makes seat predictions tricky, projections by polling companies show the National Rally and its allies are on track to become the biggest group in the lower house of parliament, though short of the 289 lawmakers needed to form an absolute majority.

National Rally leader Jordan Bardella, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and Socialist Party head Olivier Faure are due to face off in a television debate on Thursday evening as they seek to influence voters just three days before they head to the polling stations. Former French President Francois Hollande indicated he’d be ready to build a new coalition that could govern if elections deliver a hung parliament.

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