The presidential camp, under the Ensemble banner, collected 168 seats, and the National Rally (far right) and its allies 143, specifies the same source.
Thus, all parties alone cannot reach the 289 deputies necessary for an absolute majority.
In terms of number of votes, the RN came first, with more than 8.7 million votes (8,745,062), or 32.05% of the votes cast. The New Popular Front collected more than 7 million votes (7,005,527), or 25.68% of the vote, while the presidential majority obtained 6,314,555 votes, or 23.15% of the vote.
After the publication of the results, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announced, Sunday evening, that he will present his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron this Monday, to whom it will be the task of appointing the new tenant of Matignon.
Some 49.3 million French people were called to the polls on Sunday for the second round of early legislative elections, called on June 9 by the French president who had decided to dissolve the National Assembly after the victory of the far right in the European elections. Some 1,094 candidates were in the running for this second round to run for 501 seats in the National Assembly.
At the end of the first round, 75 deputies, out of 577, were already elected. The RN had obtained 39 seats, against 32 for the New Popular Front, and 2 for the presidential camp.
The participation rate was 66.63% on Sunday, with 28,870,328 voters, according to the final results from the Ministry of the Interior.
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