The relief of the French people at the result of the second round of the election, which brought the far-right third, is the topic that dominates today’s front pages of the country’s major newspapers.

The show was “stolen” by Liberation’s front page with the characteristic title “C’ est ouf” describing the relief at the upset as Le Pen’s “National Rally”, which had come first the previous Sunday, is in third place.

Le Monde speaks of a National Assembly without a clear majority, pointing out the risk of “paralysis”. Divided into three blocs of similar size, between the New Popular Front, the presidential coalition and the extreme right, the National Assembly depicts an unprecedented situation for the French Fifth Republic”, the publication points out, but at the same time it is clarified that this parliamentary composition is “the norm” in many European parliamentary democracies such as Germany, Spain, Italy and Belgium.

The newspaper Les Echos speaks of a slap in the face to the far-right Bardelas, but points out that France “is now entering the unknown while no bloc is strong enough to govern alone”.

Figaro writes that “the left is imposing itself on Macron” making extensive reference to the defeat of the far right.

🗞️ La Une du “Figaro” du lundi 8 juillet: “Le RN en échec, la gauche s’impose à Macron”

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“The National Alarm must not come to power. This is the message given by the strong majority of the French in the second round of the elections,” writes the Catholic La Croix.

“The republican awakening testifies to an open-hearted France that does not yield to the call of fear. The future must be built with this France and from this France.”

“Hope is reborn”, is the title of L’Humanité.

“It was time for reconstruction,” writes L’Express magazine. “It is urgent, before the appointments of the presidential election” in 2027.

“Out of this chaos can be born a new way of functioning of democracy,” writes La Provence.