Emmanuel Macron and his allies have begun a crucial week of campaigning to save their parliamentary majority, under threat after a first round of voting that galvanised a newly formed left-wing alliance, reports RFI.
The French president has called on voters to enable him to create a "solid majority" with the second round of legislative elections on Sunday.
Speaking before taking a flight to Romania to address NATO troops, Emmanuel Macron told the press that a "Republican jump start" was needed to face looming "difficulties".
"Faced with the crisis of the future, nothing could be worse that getting lost in inaction, obstacles and posturing," he said, adding this would only lead to chaos on a national scale.
He also said he "understood the doubts, anxiety, fears and difficulties" felt by ordinary citizens when they went to the polls last Sunday, a democratic process marked by record abstention, at 52.49 percent.
The President is keen to strengthen his position after a strong showing by the left-wing Nupes coalition and gains by the far right, making it likely that his Together (Ensemble) alliance could lose dozens of National Assembly seats in the second round of voting next Sunday.
Macron's top lieutenants vowed to campaign hard against the "extremist" pledges of Nupe's leader, the hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.