Macron narrowly wins the left in France

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Emanuel Macron. / Afp

He has obtained 25.75 percent of the votes in the first round of the legislative elections, by 25.6 of his rivals

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The French Ministry of the Interior has reported that the Together coalition that includes La República en Marcha, the party of President Emmanuel Macron, has obtained 25.75 percent of the votes in the first round of the legislative elections held this Sunday, slightly ahead of the left-wing coalition Nueva Unión Popular Ecologista y Social (known as Nupes) which has achieved 25.6 percent of the vote.

Both coalitions have a difference of 21,442 votes, according to official results, as reported by the newspaper ‘Le Figaro’.

The main protagonist of the day has been the historical abstention, which has reached 52.8 percent according to the estimates of the Elabe survey.

The alliance led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Macron’s supporters would thus be clearly ahead of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Grouping, The Republicans and their allies, and Reconquest!

However, regarding the distribution of seats, the projection of Ifop-Fiducial indicates that Together will obtain from 255 to 310 of the total of 577 seats, ahead of deputies from Nupes. Nor does it seem easy for Macron to once again have a comfortable parliamentary majority like that of the last legislature.

After the first results of the polls published in the Belgian press, which initially gave Mélenchon a slight advantage, all the candidates have spoken.

Mélenchon has been the first leader to react and has proclaimed that the Together coalition that supports President Emmanuel Macron has been “beaten and defeated”. “The presidential party has been beaten and defeated,” said Mélenchon in an appearance held shortly after the closing of the polling stations.

«At the end of this first lap, Nupes has won. It will be present in more than 500 constituencies in the second round”, highlighted Mélenchon. “For the first time in the Fifth Republic, a newly elected president fails to obtain a majority in the immediately subsequent legislative elections,” he recalled.

The leader of La Francia Insumisa, the main formation of the Nupes, has taken the opportunity to set the objective in the second round, scheduled for next Sunday. “I call on our people to rise up next Sunday to definitively reject the disastrous projects of the majority of Mr. Macron,” he has called.

“Go out with your ballots to open wide the doors of the future for which so many generations before ours have mobilized,” he riveted.

Second round earrings

President Macron spoke later, who called for “humility” among his followers after hearing the results, according to BFMTV.

Along the same lines, the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Olivier Véran, has assured that the “warning” given by the French at the polls “has been understood”, according to statements made to the public channel LCI.

“We listen to the silence of the polls, we listen to the noise of the street. We also listen to the many French people who have placed their trust in us », he pointed out.

In addition, there will not be a general slogan on which formation to support in the second round in cases in which the candidates are from the National Association and Nupes, but a decision will be made “case by case”, according to sources close to Macron quoted by the gala press

This position has provoked an immediate reaction from the left, which considers it an attack on the Republican front maintained until now against the extreme right.

Thus, the environmental leader Yannick Jadot has described this approach as “scandalous”. “Environmentalists have mobilized massively to defeat Le Pen in the presidential elections. It is absolutely scandalous to hear Olivia Grégoire and Gabriel Attal refuse to give an indication of the vote in the event of a Nupes-AN duel!

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