Summary
Despite fears of an outright National Rally majority, a tactical voting campaign produced a hung parliament: the left-wing NFP bloc won the most seats, Macron's centrists came second, and the RN third. No bloc had a majority, leaving France effectively ungovernable.
The final seat count, coalition arithmetic, and the constitutional options available to Macron.
Why France's three-bloc deadlock has no clear constitutional resolution and what comes next.
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