The French president faces a tough fight to win an absolute majority in parliament that would allow him to govern with a free hand.
| French President Emmanuel Macron faces a tough fight to win an absolute majority in parliament that would allow him to govern with a free hand after a strong showing by a new left-wing alliance in Sunday’s first-round national election.
Elabe projected Ensemble would go on to win between 260 and 300 parliamentary seats – with the mark for an outright majority set at 289 seats – on June 19 and forecast the left would secure 170-220 seats, a big increase from 2017. “In view of this result, and the extraordinary opportunity it offers us and the destiny of the common homeland, I call on people next Sunday to defeat the disastrous politics of the majority, of Macron,” Mr Melenchon said after the vote.With the two-round system, which is applied to 577 constituencies across the country, the popular vote in the first round is a poor indicator of who will eventually win a majority the following week.
A record number of voters abstained, pollsters projected, with more than half of all registered voters staying away from polling stations on a hot, sunny Sunday.Polls forecast that NUPES may deny Mr Macron an absolute majority in the June 19 second round, which would force the president into having to make unruly bill-by-bill pacts with right-wing parties and could trigger a cabinet reshuffle.
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