Just weeks after his own re-election, French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance Ensemble risks losing its absolute majority in parliament.
Based on 90 percent of the total votes counted on Sunday evening, Ensemble has collected 25.37 percent , while the pan-left NUPES led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon has so far gathered 24.31 percent , partial results from France's Interior Ministry showed. Read MoreA second round of voting is scheduled for June 19.
Partial results from the Interior Ministry also indicated the far-right National Rally and established right-wing party The Republicans and its allies lagging behind, with 19.9 percent and 10.58 percent respectively. Meanwhile, rightwing political commentator Éric Zemmour, -- whose new far-right party Reconquest! had gathered less than 5% percent of the vote in early results -- has not qualified for the next round of voting for the parliamentary seat he had targeted.
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