President Jacques Chirac's centre-right coalition trounced the left and sent the far-right right back to the political margins in a landslide election win on Sunday. The French president, who is to begin assembling his government on Monday, has promised to deliver large tax cuts, streamline the civil service, reform pensions and combat crime. The UMP - an alliance of groups backing the recently re-elected president - won an absolute majority of more than 392 seats in the national assembly, with all but 12 of the 577 constituencies declared. The Socialists and other left-wing parties won just 173, and Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front failed to take a single seat.