Left coalition wins French election, may hang parliament

 

    People cheer after the announcement of the preliminary results of the French parliamentary elections

The far-right National Rally (RN), which was ahead in the first round of the French parliamentary elections, has been blocked by the left-wing alliance from the second round of elections.

The official result announcement showed that the left-wing coalition New Popular Front (NFP) won the election. President Emmanuel Macron's centrist coalition Ensemble came in second. And the extreme right-wing party National Rally (RN) is third.

But none of the three parties got the required majority. These three parties have no history of working together. In such a situation, the country is now on the verge of having a hung parliament.

After the RN's victory in the first phase of the election, various opinion polls said that the party would win the second phase of the election as well.

After the first round of voting, France's liberals and moderates were dismayed by the National Rally, which campaigned on promises of a tough stance on immigration. Therefore, a compromise was made between the left wing alliance NPE and Makhon's alliance Together Alliance to stop the RN. These two alliances removed more than two hundred candidates from the polls so that only one gets the votes counted against the RN. This strategy has worked for the left and moderates.

RN leader Jordan Bardela expressed anger that an "unusual political alliance" was made to prevent their victory. Bardela would have been the Prime Minister if the National Rally had won.  

After President Machon announced early elections on June 9, the Socialist (Socialist), Environmentalist, Communist and hard-left France Unbowed Party (LFI) formed the NFP coalition. These groups used to criticize each other.

Apart from this, this alliance of leftists has also announced to fix the maximum price of basic products and increase the minimum wage to reduce the hardship that people have to meet the cost of living.

France needs 289 seats to form a government. The left-wing NFP coalition won 182 seats, according to the BBC, citing data from the French Interior Ministry. In that case, if the left alliance wants to form the government, it will have to take support from others. It is more likely to form a hung parliament.

In the election Ensemble won 168 seats and RN 143 seats.