A coalition of left-wing parties won the parliamentary elections in France.
In France, the second round of parliamentary elections took place on Sunday. The pro-presidential center-right bloc "Together for the Republic" has lost its majority in parliament. In terms of the number of mandates, it was overtaken by the alliance of left-wing parties "New People's Front". The far-right National Rally, which won in the first round, is third.
The turnout in the second round was 66.6 percent.
In many cases, representatives of rival parties called for voting for left-wing candidates before the second round in order to prevent the victory of the far right.
The New People's Front received 182 mandates, according to the results published by the newspaper Le Monde. The pro-presidential coalition "Together for the Republic" - 168 seats. A number of its candidates were called for by the left in districts where they could not show convincing results. The National Rally receives 143 seats. The Republicans have 45 seats. The rest of the associations received a total of 39 seats.
At the same time, not a single political force managed to get a majority in parliament. There are 577 deputies in the French National Assembly, 289 seats are needed for a majority.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has notified President Emmanuel Macron that he is ready to resign. Macron can appoint the prime minister himself, but the Elysee Palace said that the president will wait until the final configuration of parliament is formed.
The "New Popular Front" was made up of political forces between which there are quite large programmatic differences: the radical "Unbowed France" of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, more moderate socialists, as well as the "Greens" and the communists. Before the elections, however, the association came up with a common program, in which, among other things, it promised to continue supporting Ukraine, including the supply of weapons, and to consider the possibility of sending the military to protect Ukrainian nuclear power plants.
The New Popular Front managed to secure a decisive win, surpassing both the incumbent presidential camp and the far-right National Rally party, which had been widely expected to perform strongly. This unexpected triumph was seen as a significant blow to the political establishment and a clear mandate for the left’s ambitious agenda.
Commenting on the results of the elections in France, the Prime Minister of Poland published on X: "There is enthusiasm in Paris, disappointment in Moscow, relief in Kyiv. Enough to be happy in Warsaw."
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