Michel Barnier has been elected MP for Paris in the second round of a by-election, which returns him to the National Assembly that less than a year ago ousted him as Prime Minister in a confidence vote.
Barnier, of the centre-right party Les Républicains won over 62 percent of the vote in the second round Sunday, defeating Socialist candidate Frédérique Bredin, a former Sports Minister under François Mitterrand, who secured 38 percent.
