French leftists win most seats in elections, pollsters say. Lack of majority to create turmoil

AP ^ | 7/7/2024 | BARBARA SURK and HELENA ALVES

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PARIS (AP) — A coalition on the left that came together unexpectedly ahead of France’s snap elections won the most parliamentary seats in the vote, according to polling projections Sunday. The surprise projections put President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance in second and the far right in third.

The lack of majority for any single alliance plunged France into political and economic turmoil. Final results are not expected until late Sunday or early Monday in the highly volatile snap election, which was called just four weeks ago in a huge gamble for Macron.

The deeply unpopular president lost control of parliament, according to the projections. Marine Le Pen’s far right drastically increased the number of seats it holds in parliament but fell far short of expectations.

The snap legislative elections in this nuclear-armed nation and major economy will influence the war in Ukraine, global diplomacy and Europe’s economic stability.

France now faces the prospect of weeks of political machinations to determine who will be prime minister and lead the National Assembly. And Macron faces the prospect of leading the country alongside a prime minister opposed to most of his domestic policies.

The projections, if confirmed by official counts expected later Sunday or early Monday, plunge a pillar of the European Union and its second-largest economy into intense uncertainty, with no clarity about who might partner with President Emmanuel Macron as prime minister in governing France.

[pollywog]

Good morning. You are SPOT ON!!! What happened is the LIBERAL LEFT united at the last minute in France and OISTED out a Le Pen victory. BEWARE AMERICA!!!!!!! BEWARE. Make November 5th TOO BIG TO RIG!!!!! PRAY MUCH for GOD'S intervention and mercy!!!!

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[Pikachu_Dad]

No. The opposition stopped splitting their vote.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Marine Le Pen’s niece split from the party and dropped “Le Pen” from her name altogether (she goes by Marion Marechal). She is representative of the new generation which is more religious. But her “Reconquest” party imploded due to infighting and expelled her.

Thank you for this explanation; I thought Le Pen and her niece were allies. Sigh. Sorry to see a Christian thought leader expelled.

[campaignPete R-CT]

Yes, and ...

La morte

You made our day

[Sam Gamgee]

I sort of gave up on France. What are they one their SIXTH Republic now? Maybe one century they will get it all figured out.

[Tzimisce]

Preview of our election..

[Menes]

Bingo.

Who remembers the election of November 2020? Wasn’t there the suspicion going around that the voting process had been tampered with? Just a hunch, of course.

Now the French election…what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, somebody said…

[JJBookman]

...”Some men just want to watch the world burn” - Alfred Pennyworth