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		</div><p>Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said her party’s extraordinary surge in the country’s parliamentary election is a “historic victory” and a “seismic event” in French politics.</p>
<p>Many voters in Sunday’s poll opted for far-right or far-left candidates, denying President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance a straight majority in the National Assembly.</p>
<p>Ms Le Pen’s National Rally got 89 seats in the 577-member parliament, up from a previous total of eight.</p>
<p>On the other side of the political spectrum, the leftist Nupes coalition, led by hardliner Jean-Luc Melenchon, won 131 seats to become the main opposition force.</p>
<p>Mr Macron’s centrist alliance Together! won the most seats – 245 – but fell 44 seats short of a straight majority in the National Assembly, France’s most powerful house of parliament.</p>
<p>The outcome of the legislative election is highly unusual in France and the strong performance of both Ms Le Pen’s National Rally and Mr Melenchon’s coalition – composed of his own hard-left party, France Unbowed, the Socialists, Greens and Communists – will make it harder for Mr Macron to implement the agenda he was re-elected on in May, including tax cuts and raising France’s retirement age from 62 to 65.</p>
<p>“Macron is a minority president now. … His retirement reform plan is buried,” a beaming Ms Le Pen declared on Monday in Henin-Beaumont, her stronghold in northern France, where she was re-elected for another five-year term in the parliament.</p>
<p>“It’s a historic victory (…) a seismic event.”</p>
<p>She told reporters: “We are entering the parliament as a very strong group and as such we will claim every post that belongs to us.”</p>
<p>As the biggest single party in the parliament – Mr Macron and Mr Melenchon both lead coalitions – she said National Rally will seek to chair the parliament’s powerful finance committee, one of the eight commissions that oversee the national budget.</p>
<p>Prime minister Elisabeth Borne suggested on Sunday evening that Mr Macron’s alliance will seek to find “good compromises” with legislators from diverse political forces.</p>
<p>Mr Macron himself has not commented on the elections’ results yet.</p>
<p>His government will still have the ability to rule, but only by bargaining with legislators.</p>
<p>The centrists could try to negotiate on a case-by-case basis with legislators from the centre-left and from the conservative party – with the goal of preventing opposition legislators from being numerous enough to reject the proposed measures.</p>
<p>The government could also occasionally use a special measure provided by the French constitution to adopt a law without a vote.</p>
<p>A similar situation happened in 1988 under Socialist president Francois Mitterrand, who then had to seek support from the Communists or the centrists to pass laws.</p>
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