Macron not guaranteed to win outright parliament majority, estimates showFrench President Emmanuel Macron is not guaranteed to win an absolute majority in parliament, exit polls showed, after a new left-wing alliance made a strong showing in the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday.
Macron's coalition bloc was expected to win between 270-310 parliament seats - with the mark for an outright majority set at 289 seats - on June 19, according to an Elabe projection showed, while the left was seen getting 170-220 seats, a big increase from 2017.
Initial projections by Elabe put the hard-left veteran Jean-Luc Melenchon's NUPES bloc neck-and-neck with Macron's Ensemble! alliance in the first round, with 26.20% and 25.8% respectively.
With the two-round system, which is applied to 577 constituencies across the country, the popular vote in the first round is not a good indication of who will eventually win a majority on June 19, when the second round is held.
"In view of this result, and the extraordinary opportunity it offers us and the destiny of the common homeland, I call on our people to defeat the disastrous politics of the majority, of Macron, next Sunday," Melenchon told supporters after the vote...........
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-go-polls-give-macron-working-majority-or-not-2022-06-12/
