Macron defers decisions as left-wing bloc leads in French elections
The Élysée Palace stated in a release on Sunday that President Emmanuel Macron, as the guarantor of institutions, will respect the choice of French society in the parliamentary elections. At the same time, he will make decisions once the full picture of the future parliament is known.
According to the release, Macron will wait for the "structuring" of the new parliament to "make necessary decisions." The press office informed that no address from the head of state is scheduled for Sunday evening.
Second round of the elections in France. Exit poll results are in
According to exit polls by Elabe for the station bfm.tv, the left-wing New Popular Union won the election with 175 to 205 members of parliament. The big winner of the first round, the National Rally, ultimately came in third place with 115 to 150 seats. Centrist parties gathered around Macron took second place and can expect 150 to 175 seats.
Exit polls for other TV stations show similar results. According to IFOP estimates for the broadcaster TF1, the New Popular Union could secure 180 to 215 seats in Parliament, while an Ipsos survey for France TV predicts 172 to 215 places for the left-wing bloc. An Opinionway survey for C News TV indicated that the New Popular Union would win 180 to 210 seats.
According to all these surveys, President Emmanuel Macron's centrist bloc slightly outpaced Marine Le Pen's National Rally party in the race for second place.
None of the parties obtained an absolute majority of 289 seats required to form a government independently.
