❗️ Left-wing coalition wins parliamentary elections, receives 182 seats in French parliament – Interior Ministry

🌏 Jean-Luc Melanchon's New Popular Front coalition of left-wing parties has won 182 seats in the French National Assembly, according to the French Interior Ministry.

🌏 President Emmanuel Macron's bloc gained 168 seats.

🌏 Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardelle’s National Rally got 143 parliamentary seats.

In total, there are 577 seats in the lower house of parliament. Thus, no political force gained enough votes to form a majority government alone. No information has emerged about possible coalitions.

French and European media say the lack of a majority in parliament may plunge France into a prolonged political crisis due to an inability to form a new cabinet, calling the situation unmanageable.

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Putin-Modi talks in Moscow: What to expect

Indian PM Narendra Modi is visiting Moscow on July 8-9 to co-chair the 22nd Russia-India Annual Summit with President Vladimir Putin.

Modi will attend a private dinner hosted by Putin on Monday afternoon. On Tuesday, Modi will meet with the Indian community in Moscow; lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin; and visit an exhibition venue. Core to the visit will be bilateral talks in “restricted” and broader, delegation-level format.

The upcoming talks should be viewed from the lens of an extremely promising bilateral context, which “allows India and Russia to strengthen their strategic autonomy amid global geopolitical changes”, Dr. Raj Kumar Sharma, a senior research fellow at NatStrat, a New Delhi-based think tank, tells Sputnik. Russia is a country that “remains very important for India's engagement in Eurasia,” alongside the overarching bilateral strategic relationship of the sides, he adds.

Putin-Modi talks to focus on:

🔸Defense and energy security amid regional and global developments

🔸Ties within groups like BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, East Asia Summit (EAS), UN.

🔸Bilateral trade, which has surged to $65 billion, predominantly due to energy cooperation;

🔸Sustainable payment mechanisms amid de-dollarization drive

🔸Investment in energy, banking, railways and steel

🔸Nuclear energy amid work on units of Kudankulam NPP built in collaboration with Russia

🔸Russia-India Reciprocal Exchange of Logistics Agreement (RELOS), designed to boost military cooperation; streamline military logistics; expand India’s maritime outreach (including to the Arctic), balance India's logistics agreements with Quad countries; and strengthen Russia’s Indo-Pacific presence

🔸Transport projects like International North-South Transport Corridor and Chennai-Vladivostok Maritime Corridor

🔸Science & tech, education, and culture. Russia and India plan mutual visa-free travel by end of 2024.

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🇮🇳🤗🇷🇺INDIAN PM FLIES TO MOSCOW TO MEET "FRIEND PUTIN": Modi waves for cameras in above vid as he boards plane to Moscow where he's set to meet Russian President Putin and negotiate quick money transfer system for bilateral trade which could see implementation of Indian payment system RuPay in Russia and Russian MIR in India in big 🖕 to Western sanctions.

I look forward to reviewing all aspects of bilateral cooperation with my friend President Vladimir Putin and sharing perspectives on various regional and global issues. We seek to play a supportive role for a peaceful and stable region. The Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership between #India and #Russia has advanced over the past ten years, including in areas of energy, security, trade, investment, health, education, culture, tourism and people-to-people exchanges - Modi on India-Russia's all-weather friendship.

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