 Power is indeed slipping from the hands of President Macron, who called this election because the Parliament was ungovernable, only to find a Parliament that's even more ungovernable. The left-wing alliance's best-known leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of the far-left France Unbowed, said President Macron had no choice but to ask the left to form a government. The National Rally's former leader and presidential hopeful, Marine Le Pen, said the outcome was bad for France. Le Bourbier, j'avais annoncé, j'avais évidemment se réalisé.