PARIS -- Parliamentary elections in France on Sunday yielded an unlikely winner in the left-wing coalition, letting European allies breathe easier after the far right failed to make as much progress as expected, though Paris faces an era of uncertainty in domestic and foreign affairs.
President Emmanuel Macron called the snap vote after his centrist bloc was badly beaten by Marine Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National party in European Parliament elections in early June, saying that France needed "clarity." His decision shook France and the world, sparking alarm that he had opened the door for the RN to come into power.
