mmanuel macron, France’s president, is fighting to hold on to his parliamentary majority after the first round of voting in legislative elections on June 12th. Early results showed that his centrist alliance, Ensemble, had suffered at the hands of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radical-left grouping, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (nupes). Both appeared to have secured about one-quarter of the popular vote.
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