According to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, this "unprecedented situation" poses a risk for France.

French President Emmanuel Macron's party and centrist allies Together! His coalition came out on top in the second round of the French legislative elections, but lost the absolute majority in the National Assembly, according to the official final results published by the French Ministry of the Interior on Monday morning. In the next five years, the ruling party will have 246 seats in the 577-member National Assembly, where it had 345 representatives until now. An absolute majority requires 289 votes. "Starting tomorrow, we will work on creating an acting majority, there is no other alternative," said Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Sunday evening, who admitted that "this unprecedented situation poses a risk to our country."

The Left Alliance (NUPES), which brings together the Communists, the Greens, the Socialists and the Radical Left, won 131 seats, making it the main opposition force in the National Assembly.

The sovereignist right-wing National Compact led by Marine Le Pen can once again form an independent faction with 89 representatives for the first time since 1986.

The fourth-placed conservative Republicans - who have been the largest opposition faction until now - will have a group of 61 members in the lower house of the parliament.

The new National Assembly will hold its inaugural session on June 28, and a government reshuffle is also expected, after the ministers and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, at the request of the head of state, also ran as representative candidates, but the member of the government who could not win in his constituency must resign from his government post. Health Minister Brigitte Bourguignon, Amélie de Montchalin, head of the ministry responsible for the ecological transition, and Justine Bénin, secretary of state responsible for maritime affairs, did not win a mandate, and Richard Ferrand, the president of the ruling party of the National Assembly, and Christophe Castaner, the leader of the ruling party's national assembly group, also lost in their constituency.

(MTI)

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