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France votes left, right and centre
Updated On: 09 July, 2024 09:20 AM IST | Paris | Agencies
With no majority, political paralysis threatens nation
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Empty seats at France’s National Assembly in Paris on Monday. Pic/AFP
French voters divided their legislature among left, centre and far right, with no single political faction getting even close to the majority needed to form a government. The risk of paralysis loomed Monday for the European Union`s second-largest economy. Each party would need 289 seats absolute majority in a 577 seat parliament.
President Emmanuel Macron gambled that his decision to call snap elections would give France a “moment of clarification”, but the outcome showed the opposite, less than three weeks before the start of the Paris Olympics thrusts the country on the international stage.
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