Emmanuel Macron is seeking help from France’s Communist Party in a bid to rebuild his coalition and block the hard Right and Left from power.
The French president is scrambling to keep his centrist bloc in parliament after losing 80 deputies in snap elections over the past fortnight.
Mr Macron’s party came third in the first round of the election on June 30 and second the week after.
Despite calling the election to offer clarity on the country’s political situation after European elections last month, the opposite has happened, with Mr Macron now trying to salvage his party’s position while shunning the hard Right and Left, who won the first and second rounds, respectively.