This is what it sounded like in the streets of Paris Sunday night just after election results were announced.

In this tape people are crying kissing each other in the street, waving flags, and they're chanting, of course.

After 8 p.m. Paris, Central Paris, Central Paris was essentially felt like a music festival or something.

Harrison Stutler is a journalist living in Paris covering the election.

It was a real roller coaster of a ride that went down in two phases, an initial contest a week or so back, and then a runoff

over this weekend. The entire French Parliament was up for grabs. Everyone thought the far right was going to take it in a landslide,

but instead the left won the most seats. And the far right, they came in third.

You just had an uproar of jubilation.

I've seen some videos of people on their roofs actually

at around 8 p.m. and they're just filming sort of panorama style of Paris and you can just hear this sort of roar emerging from the city.

You can't see anyone because it's just the rooftops of Paris, but you can hear that there are thousands and thousands of people sort of letting out a collective sigh of not only relief but also happiness and excitement.

This was not how things were supposed to go last night.

Not at all, not at all.

I mean for much of the last month the the prevailing narrative and the

story of the snap elections was that the the far right was on the doorstep of power.

This election had surprises in store for everyone.

Take French President Emmanuel Macron.

He actually called for these elections in the first place, but he did not benefit from them.

He is a centrist, and it was left-wing candidates who enjoyed a surge of enthusiasm, even if it wasn't enough to form a majority

government. All this means France's Prime Minister job is up for grabs, while political leaders sort out, who exactly is going to run the country?

A Macron has three years of his presidency left and this severely weakens him he is going to be finding ways to claw back authority and

claw back some form of sway over parliaments, but it's gotten out of his hands for the time being, that's for sure.

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