2024-07-04 06:51:36
The far right won the first round of elections Parliamentary election crucial in France, where the forces of center right of Emmanuel Macron They came in third place behind the leftaccording to initial estimates.
The far-right party National Group (RN), led by Marine Le Pen and her allies, won around 33% of the vote, but they will have to wait until the second round on July 7 to find out if they achieve total dominance in the National Assembly.
“We need an absolute majority,” Le Pen told supporters in her fiefdom of Hénin-Beaumont in northern France, where she was re-elected as a member of parliament. The French “have delivered a resounding verdict,” said her candidate for prime minister, Jordan Bardellafrom Paris.
Macron’s alliance would win around 22% of the vote, behind the left-wing coalition New Popular Front (NFP), which would obtain around 28%, according to estimates by the polling institutes Ifop and Ipsos.
The coming to power of the extreme right, for the first time since the Liberation of France from the occupation of Nazi Germany in 1945, would add a new country to the European Union (EU) governed by this trend.
And it could weaken the policy of support for Macron’s Ukraine. Although Le Pen’s party, whose detractors consider her close to Russia, maintains that she supports kyiv and wants to avoid an escalation with Moscow.
In a vote perceived as historic, three hours before the closing of the polling stations, the turnout reached 59.39% of voters, 20 points more than at the same time in 2022, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
The electoral system itself makes the final composition of the National Assembly uncertain, where the three blocs that emerged from the 2022 elections will continue, but with a new balance of forces.
Its 577 deputies are elected in single-member constituencies, using a two-round majority system. According to the results of each constituency, two, three or more candidates may access the second round..
Macron, whose term ends in 2027, triggered the early election following RN’s victory in the European elections in France and now risks sharing power with a government of another political colour, less than a month before the Olympic Games.
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2024-07-04 06:51:36