Macron Gets Warning From Voters in Two Special Elections
Emmanuel Macron
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President Emmanuel Macron was given a warning by discontented voters who backed opposition candidates in two special elections for the National Assembly.
The Republicans, the second-largest party in France’s lower house, held on to a seat in Belfort, eastern France, and gained one from Macron’s Republic on the Move in the Val d’Oise, near Paris. The seats were won in run-off votes with scores of 59 percent and 51 percent respectively, according to Agence France-Presse.