Tom Weller/voigt | Getty Images Sport | Getty ImagesTime is running out on the so-called "Olympic political truce" declared by French President Emmanuel Macron in late July, pushing the country's rocky political landscape back into focus.
The left-wing New Popular Front alliance won the highest number of seats and prevented a much-discussed victory for the far-right National Rally.
Meanwhile, Macron's own politics and allied government have been "widely rejected by the French," Massoc added, and no party will form an alliance with far-right National Rally.
Even within the leftist grouping, parties are divided and some will refuse any sort of alliance with centrists, she said.
Under the French political system, the parliament has relatively little power and between 2017 and 2022, 65% of texts adopted were laws proposed by the government rather than parliament, Massoc noted.
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