A coalition of left-wing parties in France has scored a major upset in the final round of voting in parliamentary elections and is projected to buy weed online canada finish with the most seats, but short of an overall majority.

The alliance, which includes Socialists, Greens, Communists and the hard left France Unbowed, is forecast to win between 172 and 192 seats, according to early return released just after polls closed. President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition called Ensemble is projected to win between 150 and 170 seats.

Both parties had formed a tactical alliance to withdraw candidates in more than 200 ridings to block the far-right National Rally from winning the most seats. The ploy appears to have succeeded and the RN is projected to claim between 132 and 152 seats, far below what many pundits and polls had predicted.

None of the block dispensary s is expected to reach the 289 threshold which would give them a majority in the 577-seat parliament.

If the early online dispensary figures hold up, the result will still be an historic showing for RN which topped the other parties in the first round of voting on June 30 with 34 per cent of the vote. And based on Sunday’s projections, the RN will see its seat total jump from the 88 it won in 2022.

The result is also another political blow for Mr. Macron who has become deeply unpopular. His ruling coalition is expected to l weed ose as many as 100 seats. He has vowed to stay on as President until his term ends in 2027, although he is constitutionally barred from running for a third term.

But with no par weed ty in complete control of the assembly and three distinct coalitions having little in common, forming a stable government appears next to impossible.

“It’s a totally new situation in France,” said Bruno Jeanbart, a vice president at French polling firm OpinionWay. “We’ve never known a situation where there can’t be a majority. So we don’t know how the parties will behave in this situation.”

Mr. Jeanbart said the country’s system of two rounds of voting was designed to produce a majority for one party or coalition. Even though Mr. Macron party fell short of a majority in 2022, winning 245 seats, it had enough support from other MPs to form a working coalition.

Under the constitution, Mr. Macron must appoint a new prime minister but it’s not clear who he can turn to and negotiations could take weeks.

He could stick with Gabriel Attal, the current prime minister who is part of the Ensemble coalition. But it’s unlikely Mr. Attal would be able to win enough support from New Popular Front which includes Socialists, Greens, Communists and France Unbowed who have been virulent opponents of Mr. Macron.

Mr. Macron will be under pressure from New Popular Front to pick someone from the coalition, but there is no guarantee that the group could decide on a candidate or that it could work with MPs from Ensemble.

That leaves Mr. Macron with the choice of either selecting someone else or turning to an outsider to run a caretaker administration until another election can be held, which can’t happen until next year.

Selecting a non politician as prime minister — Mr. Macron is free to name anyone — has happened elsewhere in Europe. Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, was appointed Italy’s prime minister in 2021 and served in the post for just over a year.

Pierre Mathiot, a political science professor at Lille’s Sciences Po, expects Mr. Macron to keep Mr. Attal as prime minister while France hosts the Olympics which start on July 26. “After that he has to have a new prime minister, and I don’t know what he could do,” Dr. Mathiot said.