national assembly

A snap legislative election last year produced an ungovernable National Assembly split three ways.

France Inc. isn’t totally immune to chaos in the National Assembly.

France's National Assembly has been split three ways for the last 15 months, with a centre-right bloc of under 200 MPs facing a left-wing alliance of about the same size and a far-right bloc of about 140, plus some independents.

Following last year’s snap legislative elections, the National Assembly is divided three ways among a leftist coalition that includes the radical France Unbowed party, the insurgent-right National Rally, and a rump of Mr. Macron’s centrists squeezed in the middle.

That means economic reform is stalled, and the National Assembly already has rebuffed ever so modest gestures toward spending restraint.