- by KYIV
- 01 27, 2025
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, , is fighting to hold on to his after the first round of legislative elections on June 12th. His centrist alliance, Ensemble, suffered at the hands of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s , the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (). Each won a quarter of the vote. Under France’s two-round system, Ensemble is predicted to win many more races than . But Ipsos, a pollster, nonetheless projects that Mr Macron’s alliance will secure just 255-295 seats in the National Assembly at the run-off on June 19th, well down from the 350 it won in 2017. All but the upper end of the predicted range would see the re-elected president’s grouping fall short of the 289 seats it needs to retain its majority.
