 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.