French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance wins the first round of lower house elections by a thin margin over the left bloc of Jean-Luc Melenchon
According to a forecast by pollster Elabe, Ensemble is set to win between 260 and 300 parliament seats.
With rampant inflation driving up the cost of living and eroding wages, Macron has struggled to build on his re-election in April, with Melenchon casting him as a free-marketeer more intent on protecting the wealthy than hard-up families.newspaper said on Monday its own tally showed the left bloc had won the nationwide popular vote, and some leftist politicians said the official result had undercounted their vote.
Budget Minister Gabriel Attal dismissed Bompard's comments, saying: "They always call into question the figures... it's their speciality."
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