France's far right – which, but for the " republican front" and mass tactical voting that pushed it back to third place in the second round of this month's parliamentary elections, might very well have been in government – was frankly outraged.
In voting systems, tactical voting (or strategic voting or sophisticated voting or insincere voting) occurs, in elections with more than two candidates, when a voter supports a candidate other than his or her sincere preference in order to prevent an undesirable outcome.