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‘A real crisis of democracy’: France enters a political deadlock

Macron shakes hands with First Secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) Olivier Faure [Mohammed Badra/Pool via Reuters]

Paris, France – In France, legislative elections are an opportunity for voters to give the president a strong majority in the country’s parliamentary body, the National Assembly, and thus a powerful political mandate.

But two months after President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, the French did not turn out in overwhelming support of their president’s political party.

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