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French stocks and government bonds struggled to find direction Monday following surprise results in France’s parliamentary elections, which saw left-wing parties outperform the far right Sunday, leaving the country’s parliament facing gridlock.
Footage of disappointed French far-right supporters has gone viral after exit polls showed they were pushed to third place in the election.
France faced a hung parliament and difficult negotiations starting Monday to form a government, after a surprise left-wing surge blocked Marine Le Pen's quest to bring the far right to power. The leftist New Popular Front (NFP) emerged as the dominant force in the National Assembly after Sunday's election,
A left-wing alliance has won the most seats in the French parliament after tactical voting in Sunday’s second round election thwarted Marine Le Pen’s far-right party, but France will be left in political limbo after no party came close to winning an absolute majority.
That was one left-wing activist’s response to the exit poll which showed the left ahead in France’s parliamentary elections. At an election count at Pessac, in the Bordeaux region, disbelief blended into euphoria as the news sunk in that the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) - not the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) - had come first.
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. All the hand-wringing about a far-right victory in France looks to have been premature, with polls suggesting the leftist New Popular Front alliance gained the most seats,
Election results show French voters have chosen to give a broad leftist coalition the most parliamentary seats in pivotal legislative elections, keeping the far right away from power. Yet no party won an outright majority,
Flush from their unexpected victory in second-round elections, France’s leftist parties have been united in rejecting President Emmanuel Macron. But as the motley Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) alliance seek to form a minority government,
France faced potential political deadlock after elections on Sunday threw up a hung parliament, with a leftist alliance unexpectedly taking the top spot but no group winning a majority. Voters delivered a major setback for Marine Le Pen's nationalist,
Final results in France say a leftist coalition that came together to try to keep the far right from power has won the most parliamentary seats in runoff elections. There was high voter turnout. President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance has come in second and the far right in third.
France’s leftwing parties have begun jockeying to lead the country’s next government after their unexpected parliamentary election victory thwarted Marine Le Pen’s efforts to bring the far right to power.
Here's what may come next after France's election on Sunday looked set to produce a hung parliament, with a leftist alliance in the lead but without a absolute majority. WHAT HAPPENED IN SUNDAY'S SECOND ROUND VOTE?
French leftists win most seats in legislative elections, beating back far-right surge, pollsters say
A coalition of the French left that quickly banded together to beat a surging far right in legislative elections won the most seats in parliament but not a majority, according to polling projections Sunday,
Supporters of the France Unbowed (LFI) party burst into cheers when preliminary results showed France's left-wing alliance, New Popular Front, led the polls. France now looks set for a hung parliament.
PARIS (Reuters) -Following are reactions to the upset results of France's parliamentary election on Sunday. The country was on course for a hung parliament with the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) coming first,
A coalition of the French left won the most seats in high-stakes legislative elections Sunday, beating back a far-right surge but failing to win a majority.
A leftist coalition won the most seats in France’s parliamentary election, but it fell short of a minority. Now, the country has no dominant political bloc, creating uncertainty around what the next government will look like.
France's left-wing New Popular Front coalition on Sunday unexpectedly thwarted a far-right advance, clinching the largest number of seats but falling short of an absolute majority in a parliamentary run-off vote,
France's left-wing coalition claimed victory in the country's elections after exit polls indicated a hung parliament with the New Popular Front winning the most legislative seats, but no majority. Why it matters: The result would see Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) party plummet from first place in the first round of the elections last week to third and President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance switch from third to second,
France's political future is in limbo after no party came away with a majority in the snap elections called by President Emmanuel Macron. CBS News correspondent Elaine Cobbe has more.
Across France, members of the far-right coalition were left dumbfounded as the results of the election rolled in. A video posted to X by France 3 Rhône-Alpes showed a crowd at the National Rally headquarters in Rhône,
Talks on a political way forward have started in France, following the stunning results of snap legislative elections Sunday that put the left, and not the far right, on top. The polls left the country with no clear political majority.
France’s Leftist bloc New Popular Front (NFP) said they hope to come up with a prime minister replacement within the week, in what will be the first big test of the fledgling coalition.
ANALYSIS: France does not have a reputation for coalitions in recent times, writes Chris Stevenson, so be prepared for weeks of negotiations
French stocks climbed on Monday after a shock defeat for the far-right National Rally in France. A leftist coalition surged to take
The New Popular Front beat the National Rally and its allies but with no party holding a majority, Parliament is in deadlock.
France’s shock election result giving the radical Left-wing New Popular Front coalition the largest grouping in the National Assembly signals a u-turn for French politics. But the overall result implies something far more grave for the Fifth Republic.
A coalition of the French left won the most seats in high-stakes legislative elections, according to final results early Monday, beating back a far-right surge but failing to win a majority. The outcome left France facing the stunning prospect of a hung parliament and threatened political paralysis in a pillar of the European Union and Olympic host country.
Voting was underway in France on Sunday in pivotal runoff elections that could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and its inward-looking, anti-immigrant vision — or produce a
Violent clashes erupted on the streets of France after a shock win for the country’s left-wing coalition blocked the far-right from taking power in the country’s snap general election. Protesters could be seen launching flares,
The Left’s New Popular Front is projected to win France’s snap legislative elections, meaning the far-right National Rally won’t be able to form a government, despite obtaining the largest
A coalition on the left that came together unexpectedly ahead of France’s snap elections won the most parliamentary seats in the vote, according to polling projections Sunday. The surprise projections put President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance in second and the far right in third.
But the result puts France in uncharted territory as it's never experienced a parliament with no dominant party. What happens next largely depends on the deeply unpopular president, Emmanuel Macron.
Leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon called the results an “immense relief for a majority of people in our country,” while French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he would resign.
An alliance of French left-wing parties was on course Sunday to beat the far right and President Emmanuel Macron's coalition in a stunning outcome to parliamentary elections that plunges France
France is entering uncharted territory after a chaotic election result left the government in limbo French voters have given a broad leftist coalition the most parliamentary seats in a pivotal legislative election that has kept the far-right from power but has put France in the unprecedented position of having no dominant political bloc in
This past week saw elections in two of the world’s biggest democracies, the United Kingdom and France. The results of Britain’s July 4 election were (mostly) as expected: a romp for center-left Labour,
A Paris crowd cheered after the announcement of the exit poll for the second round of voting for France’s National Assembly on Sunday, July 7. The left-wing alliance named the “New Popular Front” won 182 seats in the National Assembly,
In a shocking reversal of earlier projections, France’s left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) coalition surged to first place in Sunday’s second round of voting for the country’s legislative elections. According to the Interior Ministry’s current estimates,
The second round of France's parliamentary election ended with results that no polls predicted. The country's right-wing political party was expected to take control. Instead, a left-wing coalition won the largest number of seats,
French stocks and government bonds struggled to find direction Monday following surprise results in France’s parliamentary elections, which saw left-wing parties outperform the far right Sunday, leavi
France is facing "days if not weeks" of political negotiations after shock exit polling indicated the country is set for a hung parliament, a former diplomat has claimed.Following the second
The far-right National Rally (RN) has suffered a stinging defeat in the run-off round of France's parliamentary elections, hobbled by electoral pacts between the left and President Emmanuel Macron's centrists.
France is on the brink of political deadlock following Sunday’s parliamentary elections, which resulted in a hung parliament. The leftist New Popular Front (NFP) alliance emerged unexpectedly at the top,