French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a political setback in the second round of legislative elections on Sunday, losing an absolute majority in the National Assembly, making it more difficult for him to govern after an election in which the far right and the left achieved a breakthrough, Bolshoi news agency reported.

And the agency said: “If expectations are confirmed, Macron, who was re-elected in April for a second term, will have to look for alliances to implement his reform agenda over the next five years.” In the President’s first commentary, Minister Gabriel Attal acknowledged that the results are “far from what we had hoped for.” He pointed out on the French channel TF1 that “an unprecedented situation is emerging in political and parliamentary life that will force us to go beyond our constants and differences.”

According to the preliminary forecasts of the voting centers, the Together coalition led by the President of the Republic took first place in the results, gaining from 200 to 260 seats, which gives it a relative majority that does not allow it to rule alone. knowing that the absolute majority is 289 deputies (out of 577). For its part, the leftist New Populist Ecological and Social Union, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, was expected to win between 150 and 200 seats and become the largest opposition bloc in the National Assembly.

Mélenchon considered that the loss of the absolute majority in the National Assembly by the Emmanuel Macron coalition is “first of all, an electoral failure” of the French president. He stressed: “This is a completely unexpected and completely unprecedented situation. The defeat of the presidential party is complete and there is no majority.”