Macron alliance projected to lose parliamentary majority
Associated PressPARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance was projected to lose its majority despite getting the most seats in the final round of parliamentary elections Sunday, while the far-right National Rally appeared to have made big gains. Borne, who herself won a seat in western France, suggested Macron’s centrist alliance will seek to get support from lawmakers from diverse political forces to find “good compromises.” The National Rally’s leader, Marine Le Pen, who lost to Macron in the presidential election, was reelected as MP in her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont, in northern France. The group of National Rally lawmakers “will be by far the biggest of the history of our political family.” Acting National Rally president Jordan Bardella compared his party’s showing to a “tsunami.” “Tonight’s message is that the French people made from Emmanuel Macron a minority president,” he said on TF1 television. The 26-year-old, who grew up in central France, expressed concern about the far-right’s results, saying the National Rally “is not an answer” to the issues of France’s suburbs and rural areas.