Politics Result: Left-wing alliance wins French election

The new left-wing alliance in France has won the early parliamentary elections according to the provisional official results. It is followed by President Emmanuel Macron's centrist camp in second place and Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National, initially seen as the favorite after the first round of voting, in third place.

This was announced by the Ministry of the Interior in Paris, without assigning all elected MPs to one of the major camps.

The MPs have until July 18 to form their parliamentary groups. French media are therefore showing a distribution of seats in the National Assembly that differs by a few seats in some cases.

According to a count by the newspaper "Le Monde", the left-wing alliance Nouveau Front Populaire has 182 seats, the presidential camp 168 seats, the Rassemblement National (RN) and allies 143 seats and the moderate part of the Républicains, which decided against cooperating with the RN, 45 seats.

It is not unusual in France for the major blocs to try to win over representatives of splinter parties that cannot be firmly assigned to one of the camps after the election results. This usually has a small impact on the exact distribution of seats in the respective camps.

As neither the left-wing alliance nor the presidential camp has an absolute majority following Sunday's election results, many efforts in the upcoming government formation will be directed towards sounding out possible alliances and winning over individual parliamentarians from other groups to their own camp. At the moment, however, neither camp has any prospect of achieving an absolute majority in this way.