Supporters in Paris of Emmanuel Macron’s party react after polls closed for the first round of the French legislative elections Sunday. In a once-unimaginable scenario, Macron’s centrist party — established little more than a year ago — was projected to win between 390 and 430 of the French Parliament’s 577 seats, according to an Ipsos-Sopra analysis. Macron’s political opponents were quick to emphasize the unusually high abstention figures. And we take the risk of a single party, a single thought, a single program.”The Republicans, one of the two parties that controlled France until 2017, came in second, winning between 85 and 125 seats, according to early projections. “The tornado was too strong, the two votes too close,” Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, the first secretary of the French Socialist party, said in a statement Sunday night.

Source: Washington Post June 11, 2017 16:37 UTC