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Nicholas Tenzer, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, argues France still faces an uncertain future.
"We have no majority in the house and basically it means the left parties and the centrist parties from Macron's side will have to build a kind of coalition," he tells The World Today.
"They will have to build a compromise between them which is certainly not an easy thing.
"But basically that's the only way out."
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We're set to head off shortly, but here's the current seat numbers, according to France TV.
Around two thirds of registered voters showed up to the voting centres – the largest turnout for decades.
But there's still no definitive majority in the 577-seat assembly, meaning the various parties will now have to do deals to work out who is the next prime minister.
That’s the question that everyone is asking.
Convention dictates that Mr Macron must name someone from the left to be prime minister.
But he and his liberal bloc don’t want that leader to be Jean-Luc Mélenchon or someone from his France Unbowed party.
But France Unbowed won the most votes among the left-of-centre New Popular Front Coalition.
So it would appear to have the right to insist on its candidate becoming prime minister. Could that be Mr Mélenchon?
Instead, it's likely Mr Macron will be hoping that NFP doesn’t put forward the self-described leftwing populist.
Mr Macron would prefer to work with a coalition led by a centre-left force.
He’s done this in the past, himself serving under François Hollande before moving into the Élysée Palace in 2017.
But would Mr Mélenchon be prepared to support someone else’s government?
We'll have to wait and see.
If you're just joining us on the blog, here are some of the key moments that have happened as the results begin to roll in.
Here's two maps from public broadcaster France TV.
They show who won by district in the two rounds of the election.
The New Popular Front and other leftists are coloured in red and pink.
Emmanuel Macron's centrist coalition is marked in purple.
And the centre-right Republicans are marked in a lighter shade of blue than the far-right National Rally.
What a difference the week between the two rounds have made!
In the first round, with a few exceptions (like the overseas territories), the National Rally captured basically everywhere outside of the cities and their surroundings.
But in the second round, the liberal centre received an "assist" from the left to win much of central France.
And the left won more urban and semi-urban areas than in in the first round.
Here's what leftist supporters are feeling tonight (though it's more like early morning there now!)
Socialist supporter Vincent, 24, said the results gave the country hope.
"For weeks, the media and polls have been telling us that the National Rally would win a majority, would be in the lead, and the country has shown that no, it is the left that has the majority," he said.
"It's a huge victory and tonight, we are delighted, it makes us feel good and we are happy with these results."
Teacher and migrant aid volunteer Patrick Jezequel, 24, said RN seemed to have thought "they have already won".
"There was this real upsurge throughout the country, which still shows that there are forces that are able to mobilise," he said.
"The turnout increased, and so we won. It is a very good thing."
The French press has largely welcomed the outcome of this election – with few RN supporters among mainstream titles.
Leftist Liberation celebrates the win of the left, saying its leaders "hadn't dare to dream" of a result like this one during 28 sleepless nights since Emmanuel Macron dissolved the assembly.
"C'est ouf" the paper says, French slang that translates along the lines of"It's crazy".
The paper also echoes incumbent PM Attal, who says France has now entered a "new era" when three blocs on the left, right and centre compete for power.
Liberal business paper Les Echos ran a front page showing a grim-faced Mr Bardella with the headline "the slap".
The news outlet says Mr Macron is likely to wait and see what the final make-up of the assembly is, and what the various parties on the Left say before deciding what to do next.
The French president hasn't spoken publicly, but he's appealing to his centre to remain "cautious", despite his coalition's better-than-expected results.
"Unprecedented" is also the word that conservative Le Figaro uses to characterise the outcome of this vote.
But it cautions that the winning leftist New Popular Front may have trouble putting together a workable majority in parliament – and could soon face no confidence motions, with Mr Macron's centrist parties still in the game and able to frustrate the Front in the assembly.
Here's some more reactions from across the globe including from a unnamed EU official who spoke to Reuters, calling the outcome a "huge relief".
"What it means for Europe on a day-to-day basis remains to be seen though," they added.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez:
Mr Sanchez congratulated NFP for a victory that "stops the far-right from reaching the government".
Greece's Socialist PASOK party head Nikos Androulakis:
Mr Androulakis said the French had "raised a wall against the far right, racism and intolerance and guarded the timeless principles of the French Republic: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity."
Colombian President Gustavo Petro:
"There are battles that last just a few days but (which) define humanity's fate.
"France has gone through one of these."
Reporting with Reuters
That would be uncharted territory for France.
The constitution says President Emmanuel Macron cannot call new parliamentary elections for another 12 months.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal says he would tender his resignation to Mr Macron on Monday morning local time, but that he was available to act in a caretaker capacity.
The constitution says Mr Macron decides who to ask to form a government. But whoever he picks faces a confidence vote in the National Assembly, which will convene for 15 days on July 18.
This means Mr Macron needs to name someone acceptable to a majority of politicians.
Mr Macron will likely be hoping to peel off Socialists and Greens from the leftist alliance, isolating France Unbowed, to form a centre-left coalition with his own bloc.
However, there was no sign of an imminent break-up of the New Popular Front at this stage.
Another possibility is a government of technocrats that would manage day-to-day affairs but not oversee structural changes.
It was not clear the left-wing bloc would support this scenario, which would still require the backing of parliament.
Reporting by Reuters.