Just two months after the president’s re-election, Macron’s centrist Ensemble coalition lost dozens of seats for a projected total of 224, far short of the 289 threshold for the absolute majority needed to govern with a free hand
President Macron sets out today to save his second term after radical left and hard nationalist parties snatched his overall parliamentary majority in a show of voters' anger over his top-down government of France
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally claimed a historic breakthrough by winning an expected 89 seats, up from only seven in the outgoing parliament.
🗣️ “The Macron adventure has reached its end”