French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a stunning setback on Sunday after his party lost their parliamentary majority amid large electoral gains by a newly-formed leftist coalition and Marine Le Pen’s far-right party.

With more than 97% of votes counted in the tough election, Macron’s coalition had secured only 234 seats, far short of the 289 required to have a majority in the 577-seat National Assembly.

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France’s new left-wing coalition NUPES, led by Jean-Luc Melenchon, had secured 124 seats at the time of writing this, while Marine Le Pen‘s National Rally party had secured 89.

“The rout of the presidential party is total and there will be no majority,” a jubilant Melenchon told cheering supporters in Paris, while Le Pen hailed the historic results for her party, which “by far,” secured its largest number of seats yet on Sunday.

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With votes still being counted Macron’s centrist Together alliance is on track to win 234 seats, while NUPES, National Rally, and the conservative Les Republicains are on track to win 141, 90, and 75 seats respectively, a result that promises to sent French politics into a tumultuous phase.

“This situation constitutes a risk for our country, given the challenges that we have to confront,” French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said in a televised statement on Sunday, vowing, “We will work from tomorrow to build a working majority.”

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Indeed, the result is a severe setback for Macron, who defeated Marine Le Pen in April to become the first French President since Jacques Chirac in 2002 to win a second term.

Macron, who has been busy trying to negotiate a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, now has to tend to domestic problems as the current split in the parliament promises to create weeks of deadlock as the President and his party reach out to others to secure a majority and work towards its reformist agenda.