President Emmanuel Macron is on course to lose his majority in France’s National Assembly, after a strong showing in Sunday’s legislative elections by a left-green opposition alliance and a late surge from the extreme right.
Initial results and projections by polling agencies after voting stations closed showed that Macron’s centrist Ensemble (Together) alliance would fall well short of the 289 seats needed for a straight majority in the assembly, winning about 230 seats.
The left-green alliance formed by far-left politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon — the New Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nupes) — was supported by many young urban voters and is set to become the main opposition party with about 150 seats.
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