Macron Loses Parliament Majority in France

TIRANA – Defectors from French president Emmanuel Macron’s party, la République en Marche, have formed a small, new faction called Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity, costing Macron his parliamentary majority, said EU observer on Wednesday.
The president now commands 288 MPs in the 577-seat house.
He also had informal support from two centre-right parties, MoDem and Agir, with 56 seats together, enabling him to govern smoothly, but the defections undermined Macron’s authority, French commentators said./argumentum.al