Le Pen's National Rally Surging in French Elections
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France's National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen, is poised for a significant victory in the first round of the French legislative elections, according to early projections. The National Rally is expected to win 34 percent of Sunday's vote, while French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance suffered staggering losses, coming in third with 20.3 percent of the vote.
Le Pen, speaking at a party event in the Eastern French town of Hénin-Beaumont, called on voters to give her party an "absolute majority" in the second round of voting on July 7. She said a National Rally majority would enable the conservatives to form a new government with party President Jordan Bardella as prime minister in order to work on France's "recovery."
According to early projections based on exit polls, Le Pen's party is expected to get 230-280 seats in the 577-seat national assembly, the left-wing alliance 125-165 seats, and Macron's coalition 70-100. However, seat projections are conjectural at this stage and dependent on political decisions taken in the coming days ahead of the second round of voting.
Macron himself is due to stay in power until the end of his mandate in 2027, regardless of the outcome of this assembly election. However, the results of the first round will give a picture of overall voter sentiment, and the second round will be decisive.
The French president called for "democratic and republican" forces to unite against Le Pen's party. "Faced with the [rise of the] National Rally, we need to foster a wide unity that is clearly democratic and republican ahead of the second round," Macron said, according to a statement from the Elysée Palace.
Turnout in the parliamentary vote was much higher than during previous elections, at 59.5 percent at 5pm Paris time, according to France's interior ministry. The high turnout shows how important the vote was for French citizens, and how they want to clarify the political situation.
The French president shocked the nation and France's international allies when he triggered the vote only a couple of weeks before the Olympic Games, after a humiliating defeat in June's European parliament election. It was an audacious move designed to stop the far-right advance in its tracks by forcing French voters to choose a new parliament. However, on the strength of the early projections so far, his gamble looks set to fail.
This developing story is being updated.
Sources:
theepochtimes.com
politico.eu
theguardian.com
Le Pen, speaking at a party event in the Eastern French town of Hénin-Beaumont, called on voters to give her party an "absolute majority" in the second round of voting on July 7. She said a National Rally majority would enable the conservatives to form a new government with party President Jordan Bardella as prime minister in order to work on France's "recovery."
According to early projections based on exit polls, Le Pen's party is expected to get 230-280 seats in the 577-seat national assembly, the left-wing alliance 125-165 seats, and Macron's coalition 70-100. However, seat projections are conjectural at this stage and dependent on political decisions taken in the coming days ahead of the second round of voting.
Macron himself is due to stay in power until the end of his mandate in 2027, regardless of the outcome of this assembly election. However, the results of the first round will give a picture of overall voter sentiment, and the second round will be decisive.
The French president called for "democratic and republican" forces to unite against Le Pen's party. "Faced with the [rise of the] National Rally, we need to foster a wide unity that is clearly democratic and republican ahead of the second round," Macron said, according to a statement from the Elysée Palace.
Turnout in the parliamentary vote was much higher than during previous elections, at 59.5 percent at 5pm Paris time, according to France's interior ministry. The high turnout shows how important the vote was for French citizens, and how they want to clarify the political situation.
The French president shocked the nation and France's international allies when he triggered the vote only a couple of weeks before the Olympic Games, after a humiliating defeat in June's European parliament election. It was an audacious move designed to stop the far-right advance in its tracks by forcing French voters to choose a new parliament. However, on the strength of the early projections so far, his gamble looks set to fail.
This developing story is being updated.
Sources:
theepochtimes.com
politico.eu
theguardian.com
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