French President Emmanuel Macron may find himself without a ruling majority during his second term and deprived of the ability to push through his economic reform agenda after Sunday’s first round of parliamentary elections saw his ruling coalition tied with a new left-wing alliance.
A strong showing by the left-wing Nupes coalition and gains by the far right made it likely that Macron's Ensemble ("Together") alliance could lose dozens of National Assembly seats in the second round of voting next Sunday. Here are three possible outcomes.
