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00:00He may have announced his intention to resign as Prime Minister, but Gabriel Attal will
00:04be a member of France's new parliament.
00:07He was comfortably elected in the Eau de Seine region with 58% of the vote.
00:12Other members of the outgoing government also got elected, like Interior Minister Gérald
00:16Darmanin.
00:17While former Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne was victorious in Calvados, ahead of the far
00:22right national rally.
00:24She had looked in trouble after the first round, but benefited from the new popular
00:28front candidate withdrawing.
00:30But Emmanuel Macron's party also suffered some reversals, with civil service minister
00:35Stanislas Guérini and former government spokesman Olivier Véran losing out.
00:40On the right, Les Républicains President Eric Ciotti's controversial alliance with
00:45the national rally did not cost him.
00:47He was re-elected on 45% in a three-way race in Alpes-Maritimes.
00:52Les Républicains MP Maher Habib lost his seat in one of France's overseas constituencies,
00:58beaten by Renaissance's Caroline Yadon.
01:01While on the left, former President François Hollande returns to the National Assembly
01:06after an absence of 12 years.
01:08In his stronghold in Corrèze, he finished first in a three-way race with 43% of the
01:14vote.
01:15In the Somme, the left-wing MP François Ruffin held his seat after a campaign in which he
01:20was highly critical of his former party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
01:24La France Insoumise dissidents Alexis Corbière and Daniel Simonet also won their battles
01:30against the party's official candidates.
01:33And Antifa activist Raphael Arnaud caused a huge surprise, becoming the sole new popular
01:38front MP from Vaucluse in the south, which is dominated by the far right.
01:42Arnaud becomes the first person flagged as a risk by security services to enter the National
01:47Assembly.