18/06/2012 10:30
Socialists won Parliamentary majority on Sunday
French President Francois Hollande's Socialists won a resounding parliamentary majority on Sunday, strengthening his hand as he presses euro zone paymaster Germany to support debt-laden states weighed down by austerity cuts and ailing banks, the Reuters reports.
The Franc 24 says that the Socialists took control of France’s parliament for the first time in ten years on Sunday in elections marked by high voter abstention.
The Socialist Party (PS) together with left-leaning independents won 307 seats in the lower-house National Assembly, compared to 191 seats for the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), giving President François Hollande’s party an absolute majority, exit polls showed.