French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance falls short of legislative majority

French President Emmanuel Macron will not have an absolute majority during his second term, according to election results published by France’s interior ministry.

The French president’s centrist movement Ensemble! Managed to secure 245 out of 577 legislative seats, which was not a majority, but was still more than any other party in the country.

The result mirrors Sunday’s victory for Colombian leftist Gustavo Petro whose party also failed to achieve a majority in his country’s legislature despite winning a high number of seats.

In France, Macron’s alliance was not able to achieve the 289 seat threshold to hold a majority in France's lower house, the National Assembly.

In second place France’s leftist coalition, the New Ecological and Social People's Union (NUPES won131 seats, according to the government’s published results, making the movement the main opposition force against Macron.

“The collapse of the presidential party is total, and no majority is presented,” the coalition’s leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon said earlier in the evening, remarking on preliminary results. 

“We have achieved the political objective that we had set ourselves, in less than a month, to bring down the one who, with such arrogance, had twisted the arm of the whole country, who had been elected without knowing what for.”

In third place, Marine Le Pen's conservative National Rally party won 89 seats, which was a record for the far right movement. Le Pen said, “This group will be by far the largest in our political history.”

Macron won a second term in presidential elections in April. He is the first French president whose party does not hold a parliamentary majority since a 2000 electoral reform went into effect.