Macron’s snap election saddles France with a messy hung parliament as the price for stopping the far right.
PARIS — The left-wing alliance in France won the most seats in parliament in a dramatic election, dealing a surprise blow to the far-right party of Marine Le Pen .
Even so, the mood inside the president’s camp was upbeat on Sunday night, with Macron himself striking a defiant tone. At a gathering of his political allies, the French president galvanized his troops: “Our ideas are still alive and haven’t lost voters,” he claimed, according to one participant who spoke to Paris Playbook.
In the minutes after the initial seat forecasts were announced, the far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon took to the stage in front of his jubilant supporters. “ wrested a result that everyone said was impossible in a wonderful leap of civic spirit … The people have avoided the worst,” he said.But frantic political maneuvering in the days that followed saw Macron’s team and leaders of parties on the left muster their forces in a national effort to thwart the far right.
Attal, Macron’s choice as the current French prime minister, said Sunday that he would offer to resign, but he opened the door to heading a caretaker government during the Paris Olympic Games, which begin on July 26. “I will carry out my duties as long as duty demands it, it cannot be otherwise on the eve of such important events,” Attal said in Paris.
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