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Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced his resignation after the left-wing alliance secured a surprise victory in the French parliamentary elections on Sunday and his centrist camp failed to win a majority. Attal, who belongs to President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, said after the first projections were published on Sunday evening that the Ensemble (Together) alliance led by Renaissance had no majority to govern and he would be submitting his resignation to Macron on Monday morning. Attal’s governing camp is likely to slip from 245 seats to between 150 and 180 of the 577 seats in the …

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