Socialists won a crushing victory in France

Socialists won a convincing victory in the parliamentary elections in France. According to preliminary data, they will receive 315 mandates in a 577-seater national assembly, which will allow them to create a government without entering a coalition with allies, BBC reports. This is the best result that the Socialist -Revolutionary Party has achieved in the history of the V Republic. Thus, President Francois Hollande will not have problems in relations with parliament.

Elections to the French parliament are held in two rounds through the majority system. At one time, such an election system was introduced by General de Gaulle specially to cut off the left candidates from parliament.

Elections in the district failed to win the leader of the French depressed Marine Le Pen, she did not have enough only a few hundred votes. However, the deputy was her 22-year-old niece Marion Maresal Le Pen, the granddaughter of the founder of the National Front.