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Allies of French President Emmanuel Macron started working Monday to cobble together a working parliamentary majority to salvage his second term, after his alliance crumbled in the election against surges from the left and far-right. How can MP's work to block Emmanuel Macron's legislative agenda?
French lawmakers voted on Thursday to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution, with MPs on the left and centre saying the US Supreme Court's overturning of a landmark ruling in June showed the need for new steps. The vote in the National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament, marks only the first step on the path to enshrining the right to abortion in the constitution.
France's new lower house of parliament begins voting to elect the speaker as it meets for the first time since the legislative elections. Pro-Macron candidate Yael Braun-Pivet is expected to be the first woman in French history to claim the chair. IMAGES
Newly-elected MPs from Emmanuel Macron's party LREM, renamed Renaissance, arrive at the National Assembly, as the French president looks for a way out of the deadlock after his failure to retain a parliamentary majority. IMAGES
Two days after the second round of the French parliamentary elections, the newly-elected MPs of the left-wing coalition Nupes enter the hemicycle of the National Assembly. IMAGES