Emmanuel Macron now has the tricky task of nominating a head of government, with potential fault lines already on display
Police officers stand by burning bicycles during tensions near the Place de la République in Paris following the second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday Jubilant crowds and furious demonstrators flooded the streets of France on Sunday night when the shock projections from the parliamentary elections came through:the prospect of Ms Le Pen’s protégé, RN leader Jordan Bardella, leading the next...
Ensemble , President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist/liberal coalition, came second with 168, while the RN will have 143 seats in the country’s lower house of parliament.came as the result of massive tactical voting by the centre and left, with some 220 third-placed candidates withdrawing – the so-called “désistement” – to ensure that the vote against the far right would not be split.
Mr Macron was himself a technocrat, a former investment banker, when he entered politics as an economics minister in 2012.The potential fault lines were already on display on Sunday night, with the different stances taken by the parties in the NFP: while the Greens, the socialists and even the communists were ready for a compromise, the firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon demanded that his party, the far-left France Unbowed , should lead the government.
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