For Emmanuel Macron's party, victory tastes like defeat.

The Together!

came in first on Sunday June 19, according to the first estimates of the second round of the legislative elections, but very far from an absolute majority.

Two months after his re-election, the head of state who had repeatedly urged the French to give him "a strong and clear majority" was not heard.

Here's what to remember from this election.

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  • No absolute majority for the presidential party

The Macronist coalition, Together!, largely lost the absolute majority of 289 seats in the National Assembly after the second round of legislative elections against the united left alliance, Nupes, which becomes the main opposition and a very strong breakthrough of the National Rally, according to the first estimates of the pollsters.

  • The Nupes becomes the first opposition force

The left-wing coalition, Nupes, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon comes second.

The group resulting from the agreement between La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the ecologists, would obtain, according to Ipsos / Sopra Steria for France 24, 149 seats.

Other polling institutes place Nupes between 150 and 180 elected officials according to Ifop, between 160 and 200 for Opinionway and between 170 and 190 for Elabe.

  • Huge breakthrough of the far right

The National Rally has meanwhile achieved a historic breakthrough by obtaining a very large group of 85 deputies according to Ipsos / Sopra Steria.

The other polling institutes place it between 60 and 100 deputies.

He had never been able until then to form a group in the National Assembly, with the exception of that obtained in 1986 thanks to a proportional election (35 deputies).

The leader of the party, Marine Le Pen, was pleased to have in the Assembly the group "by far the most numerous in the history of our political family", which will ensure "a firm opposition" but "respectful institutions".

"The French people have decided to send a very powerful parliamentary group of deputies from the National Rally to the National Assembly, which thus becomes a little more national, this group will be by far the largest in the history of our political family" , she underlined, herself re-elected in Pas-de-Calais.

The interim president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, meanwhile hailed a "tsunami" for his party.

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  • The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, elected in Calvados

The head of government was elected deputy for Calvados with 52.46% of the vote against a 22-year-old Nupes-LFI.

Elisabeth Borne submitted for the first time to the verdict of the polls in the heart of the Normandy bocage, in the 6th district of Calvados.

In 2017, the outgoing LREM Alain Tourret was re-elected there with 68.34% of the vote against a National Front candidate.

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No one, in the majority, imagined his departure before Sunday evening, as the symbolism of a head of government landed barely a month after his appointment seemed disastrous to public opinion.

  • The government promised a reshuffle

In view of the results, the Borne government, formed on May 20, already seems promised a reshuffle.

Some of its members, unsuccessful legislative candidates, have automatically resigned according to a tacit rule imposed by the Élysée.

This is particularly the case of the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, and the Secretary of State for the Sea, Justine Benin, both beaten.

The outgoing president of the Assembly, Richard Ferrand, is also beaten, as is Christophe Castaner, the outgoing president of the LREM group or the former minister Bérangère Abba.

The members of the government Olivier Dussopt, Damien Abad, Marc Fesneau, Gérald Darmanin and Franck Riester were however re-elected deputies.

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  • Bruno the Mayor calls for dialogue and compromise

The Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, appealed "to everyone's sense of responsibility" so that the National Assembly is not ungovernable, after the second round of legislative elections.

"I call for everyone's sense of responsibility, we must avoid blockage", he declared on France 2, calling for "dialogue", "listening", "taking into consideration" the ideas "of men and women who find themselves in the project of the President of the Republic".

With AFP and Reuters

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