Macron loses an absolute majority in Parliament: Mélenchon and Le Pen advance
To the legislative Ensemble! does not reach the fateful quota of 289 seats. The left heels and the right increases the number of deputies tenfoldEmmanuel Macron (Ansa-Epa)
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The legislative elections have in fact upset the balance of the Assemblée Nationale in Paris.
According to the first projections in the seats, the leader of the Elysée with his coalition Ensemble! it is very far from the absolute majority necessary to govern, or 289 seats .
In the first mandate it had 341 deputies, today it would not exceed 250.
Trailing the president's coalition is Nupes , the left-wing union led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon (170-190 seats).
Boom also for the right-wing party of Marine Le Pen (which was re-elected in parliament), which manages to increase the number of deputies tenfold : they were 8, they could be 60-100, making the Rassemblement national the third force in the country.
"The defeat of President Emmanuel Macron's party is total and there is no majority . We do not give up the ambition to govern the country", Melénchon's first comment at the exit polls .
Le Pen also rejoices : “We managed to elect a very strong group of deputies to the Assembly, which from now on will be even more national. It will be by far the largest in the history of our political family. "
(Unioneonline / lf)