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French elections: Macron loses majority as French vote fragments


[Less than two months after he was
re-elected president, Emmanuel Macron
has lost control of the French National Assembly
following a strong performance by a left alliance
and the far right.

He had called on voters to deliver a solid majority.

But his centrist coalition lost dozens of seats
in an election that has left French politics fragmented.]

[The prime minister he had only recently appointed,
Elisabeth Borne, said the situation
was unprecedented.

A storm broke over Paris as she returned
to her Matignon residence from a long meeting
at the presidential Élysée palace to say that
modern France had never seen
a National Assembly like this one.]