French election update: No bloc secures absolute majority | DW News

The leftist New Popular Front (NFP) grabbed the top spot in the second round of the French legislative election on Sunday in a major upset over the far-right, according to projections. The New Popular Front (NFP) was expected to have 172-215 seats, whereas French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble alliance was in second with 150 to 180 MPs. Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally unexpectedly landed in third place with 120 to 152 seats. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, a Macron ally, said he will offer his resignation after the vote.

00:00 First projections show left-wing alliance coming out on top in French parliamentary elections
02:20 Lisa Louis, DW Correspondent
04:56 Statement of French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announcing his resignation
11:19 Lisa Louis, DW Correspondent
15:01 Thibault Madelin, Journalist, Les Echos

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[gfhcoalition]

At least, French political arena has young faces. Look at what we have in the US, dinosaur grandpas are running the country.

[Spicy]

Classic Democracy: Vote for who you agree with.
Modern Day Democracy: Vote against the person you disagree.

[getlost]

Look at the popular vote ... LePen had 10 million votes...way ahead than others

[carlosca]

Nothing will get done in the parliament, one thing is clear French citizens are fed up with the status quo’s and politics as usual

[RYANSPRIVATES]

Funny how the left won, also in England the left won the media kept saying Europe is turning Right 😂

[charlessmyth]

If the parties won't cooperate, Macron can organise a team of technocrats and call another election next year., and the year after that . . . :-)

[mtlqcca]

I'm sorry but the translator did not translate at all

[ORO]

Can we get young candidates in the US now please?

[nedimramic]

what happens with DW from good media house to servant media their translation of PM is wrong

[hawsrulebegin]

Suddenly the British comments all have a solid knowledge of the French.

[scott]

Hang on…how can he claim to give a voice to “the majority of the electorate” 1:34 with only around 27% of voters (and around 60% turnout)?

[richdobbs]

Vote totals? Clear that strategic voting hurt NR conversion to seats, but where does the popular vote sit?

[kc_]

Second Round Election Results:
National Rally and allies won 10.1 million votes (37.06%) and 142 seats
New Popular Front won 7.04 million votes (25.8%) and 180 seats
Together for the Republic won 6.69 million votes (24.5%) and 159 seats
The Republicans won 1.47 million votes (5.4%) and 39 seats
Other/Independents won 57 seats

[pinktfatrabbit]

Why do you hesitate to call the block far left? Because that's what it is.

[mbahincarel]

This translator who translated Gabriel Attal's speech did not do her job 😅

[kyleanuar]

UK and France are done, if you haven't left yet then starting planning to leave now will set you with some losses. We in south east Asia have an influx of western done with the unstable country.

[thedramatic]

Macron: "Bye bye. Farewell. And thank you for the fish."

[george]

So the yellow group decides whether France is left or right of centre.

[charlessmyth]

Macron says: It's for the parties to cooperate to avoid being engulfed in a running dogfight of ideological and partisan conflict ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Thesecret-telm]

Come on DW, you surely have enough resources to add a better translation afterwards for this on-demand video.
Please stop using these "live" translations as they are annoying and hard to listen to.
(I don't speak french so I don't know if the comments about the translation being inaccurate is also true. If so it's even worse).