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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Michel Rose and Tassilo Hummel

EXPLAINED: French go to polls to give macron working majority or not | Rare Historical Photos

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron greet people as they arrive to vote in the first round of French parliamentary elections, at a polling station in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France, June 12, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman

President Emmanuel Macron faces a tough fight to win an absolute majority in parliament that would allow him to govern with a free hand after a strong showing by a new left-wing alliance in Sunday's first-round election.

Initial estimates by Elabe put the hard-left veteran Jean-Luc Melenchon's NUPES bloc neck-and-neck with Macron's Ensemble! alliance in the first round, with 26.20% and 25.8% respectively.

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