French prime minister Elisabeth Borne has said Emmanuel Macron’s loss in the lower house elections was a “risk” for the country.
Early projections by several polling firms predicted the French president’s La Republique en Marche would win only about 230 seats, beating all other parties and coalitions but a far cry from the 289 needed for an absolute majority, and far less than the 350 seats his centrist political brand won and drew into its camp in 2017.
