Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure said the French left-wing alliance "New Popular Front" is the winner of the elections and must unite the majority of the French, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
We will have only one compass: the program of the "New Popular Front", Faure told his supporters. He added that French President Emmanuel Macron's policies should not be continued and that his controversial pension reform should be reversed.
A key question is whether the leftist alliance will remain united and agree on what course to take, notes Reuters.
The leader of the far-left party "Disobedient France" Jean-Luc Mélenchon ruled out the possibility of a broad coalition with parties from different political currents.
MEP Raphael Glucksman, one of the key figures on the left, called on his coalition partners to behave "like adults", AFP reported.
"We are in charge, but we are in a fragmented parliament. We will have to talk to each other, to discuss, to enter into a dialogue," said Glucksman, who was the leading candidate of the Socialist Party/"Plas Publik". in the European elections last month and collected nearly 14 percent of the votes.
Earlier in the evening, it became clear that, to everyone's surprise, the union of left parties won the parliamentary elections in France according to the first estimated results, AFP reported, quoted by BTA.
The "New People's Front" coalition, which includes the far-left party "Rebellious France", the Socialist Party, the "Environmentalists" and the French Communist Party, there will be between 171 and 187 deputies in the new composition of the parliament, several exit polls show.
A month after President Emmanuel Macron's gamble to dissolve parliament, the current presidential majority - the "Together" coalition - is in second place. - with between 152 and 163 deputies. In the previous composition of the parliament, the Macronists had 250 deputies. Still, the presidential camp showed unexpected resilience, AFP noted, given that sociologists had predicted a weaker result.
Third is the far-right "National Assembly" with a historically high number of deputies - between 134 and 152. After winning the first round of the elections, however, Marine Le Pen's party remains out of power after the second round, as it received a lower-than-expected result.
In fourth place is the conservative party "Republicans" with between 61 and 67 people's representatives.
The first to react was the leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a representative of the "New Popular Front". He declared that the Prime Minister from the Macronist camp, Gabriel Atal, should "go" and the union of the left "to rule".
"The tidal wave is rising. It wasn't high enough this time, but it's still going up. And therefore, our victory was only postponed," said the informal leader and chairwoman of the parliamentary group of the "National Assembly" in turn. Marine Le Pen. "I have too much experience to be disappointed by a result where we double the number of our MPs," she added.
Macron did not make a statement, but the Elysee Palace said the president was analyzing the election results and would wait to see the full picture in parliament before deciding who to appoint to form a government. Its prime minister, Gabriel Attal, announced that he would resign today, but added that he was ready to stay in office as long as necessary.
France, one of the pillars of the European Union, finds itself in the uncharted waters of tripartism and the lack of a majority two days before a NATO summit and three weeks before the start of the Summer Olympics in Paris. None of the main three blocs in the country will have the required number of 289 deputies, i.e. absolute majority to form an independent government.
Voter turnout was around 67 percent, the highest since 1981. The so-called "Republican Front" built between the two rounds by the Macronists and the left to curb the wave of the extreme right, which had earlier won the first round, paid off. However, it remains unclear what the next government will look like.
Voters dashed the hopes of the "National Assembly" to form a cabinet that would have been the first far-right government since World War II. The party can take solace in the fact that it has a record number of deputies in the National Assembly, the lower chamber of the parliament.