PARIS—President Emmanuel Macron is on course to lose his absolute majority in the National Assembly and control of his reform agenda after the first projections by four pollsters showed Sunday’s election delivering a hung parliament.
Macron’s Ensemble! alliance was set to end up with the most seats, the polls showed, followed by the Nupes bloc headed by leftist veteran Jean-Luc Melenchon.
The threshold for an absolute majority is 289 seats in the lower house, and while the four pollsters’ projections varied, all agreed Macron and his allies would fall well short of that.
Separate forecasts by pollster Ifop, OpinionWay, Elabe, and Ipsos showed Macron’s Ensemble alliance winning 200–260 seats and Nupes securing 149–200….