A leftwing alliance has become the most significant force in the French parliament after tactical voting held back the far right, but won an absolute majority, the Guardian reports.
Results of Sunday’s second-round election show that the leftwing New Popular Front (NPF) won 182 seats, followed by President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Together Alliance with 163 and the far right in a distant third with 143 seats.
In the first round of the election, the far right and its allies…
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