National regrouping (former National Front) of far-right leader Marine Le Pen would get 19.2% of the vote in parliamentary elections, according to exit polls
Technical tie. The union of left-wing parties and the party of centrist President Emmanuel Macron and his allies were proved right in the first round of French parliamentary elections today, according to first estimates of election results.
The elections were marked by the political turmoil of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s New People’s, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) and a record abstention. The second and final round of the parliamentary elections will take place next Sunday, June 19.
Nupes – which brings together La France Insumisa, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) – would take 26.1% of the vote. Ensemble (Together), the name by which Macron’s party and its allies are presenting themselves in these elections, would receive 25.6% of the vote according to estimates by the Ifop Fiducial results for TF1 and LCI.
National regrouping (former National Front) of far-right leader Marine Le Pen would get 19.2% of the vote. The Republicans (moderate right) and their allies would gain 11.3% respectively, pending the final results, and the recapture of the far right Éric Zemmour would take 4.1% of the vote respectively.
As expected, the first round of the parliamentary elections, in which the 577 seats in the National Assembly will be renewed, was marked by a record abstention. Early estimates put the abstention rate at 53%, almost ten points more than in 2012. Only 47% of French voters are said to have gone to the polls yesterday. In 2017, the abstention in the first round was 51.3% and in 2012 42.8%.
In the first round of the parliamentary elections, 6,293 candidates were nominated in 577 constituencies, the same number of seats at stake in these elections. In 2017, there were 7,877 candidates for the election.
The legislative elections are in reality 577 simultaneous elections in two rounds with an average of 11 candidates per constituency. We will have to wait for the final results to know how many deputies were directly elected in the first round. To do this, they had to obtain a majority of the valid votes (at least 50%) and that the votes obtained represent at least 25% of the electoral count of that constituency.
Source: La Verdad
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