Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party won a record 142 seats amid an upsurge of strikes and protests, but the neo-fascist National Rally also won a record 89 seats.
PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections on Sunday, a major setback that could throw the country into political paralysis unless he is able to negotiate alliances with other parties.
President Emmanuel Macron is on course to lose his absolute majority in the National Assembly and control of his reform agenda after the first projections by four pollsters showed Sunday's election delivering a hung parliament.
By Luis Miguel Pascual Paris, Jun 19 (EFE).- French President Emmanuel Macron will go into his second five-year term without the parliamentary majority he had enjoyed during his first term, having on Sunday lost many of his coalition’s former seats to the leftist NUPES group and to the historic rise of the ultraright. The centrist …