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France election 2024 live results: Left-wing coalition on top in exit poll | Elections News
Season 1, Ep. 379
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An unusually high turnout of voters spelled the end of the French far right's dream of taking power in the legislature.
A coalition on the left that came together unexpectedly ahead of France's snap election won the most parliamentary seats in the vote, according to early projections. The surprising result put President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance in second and the far right dropped to third place.
With no party having the outright majority, France is likely heading to a coalition government, plunging 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 took a huge gamble in dissolving parliament and calling for the elections after his centrists were trounced in European elections on June 9.
The snap elections in this nuclear-armed nation will influence the war in Ukraine, global diplomacy and Europe's economic stability, and they're almost certain to undercut Macron for the remaining three years of his presidency.
It does not appear to have paid off for the deeply unpopular president, whose alliance has lost control of parliament, according to the projections. Marine Le Pen's far right greatly increased the number of seats it holds, meanwhile, but fell far short of expectations.
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.
French leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon called the projections an "immense relief for a majority of people in our country" and he demanded the resignation of the prime minister. Mélenchon is the most prominent of the leftist leaders who unexpectedly came together ahead of the two-round elections.
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