Voter turnout was 66.6 percent, according to the official announcement, and no alliance or party was able to secure an absolute majority of 289 deputies in parliament.
Leftist parties, which failed to form an alliance in the last general elections, banded together under the New Popular Front in a short time to fight the far right in the polls and announced that they would field a single candidate. / Photo: AFP
President Emmanuel Macron's alliance Renaissance party won 150 seats in parliament, while the far-right National Rally got 125.With these results, no alliance or party could secure an absolute majority of 289 deputies in the parliament.The number of RN deputies has increased from 89 to 125. Official data show that 215 candidates who qualified for the second round chose not to run to prevent the RN from winning.
He justified his decision by citing the need for a democratic response to the European Parliament election results.
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