i/Socialist_Party_(France)" title="Socialist Party (France)">Socialist Party</a> needed its allies to form a majority. For the first time, the ecologists were represented in the Parliament. The participation of the <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_(France)" title="National Front (France)">National Front</a>'s candidates in the second round increased the defeat of the "Presidential majority".</p>
<p>This was the first time since 1877 that a <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_France"