News Desk

President Emmanuel Macron describes his call for snap elections as

“throwing his live grenade at their feet”

after stinging far-right victory in June’s European Elections.

The final results of France’s elections took the country by storm with the Left-wing alliance leading the votes with 182 seats and the far-right trailing behind in third place, which was a shocking upheaval of the first-round results on the last Sunday.

The news of the projected results on Place de la Republique in Paris News was met with egregious applause and fireworks; people embracing one another as they all collectively give a sigh of relief. They believe France had been pulled back from the brink.

Sunday’s turnout was the highest in the country’s parliamentary elections for more than two decades, as French citizen turned up to the ballot box with a drive to express their feelings: to not let the far-right govern.

However, the left fell short of the 289 seats that was necessary for a majority and with a weakened president, the national assembly will expectedly be more fractured than ever before.

The prediction that France will enter an extended period of instability as three opposing blocs with even more opposing ideas and beliefs try to form a coalition seems to be concrete, either that or they enter a state of paralysis.