The left-wing bloc, led by Mélenchon, is hot on the heels of the current president. Candidates are concerned about entering this second round as there was a historic abstention rate of over 52% in the first.
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France has a new appointment this Sunday with the polls to end parliamentary elections in which the president, Emmanuel Macron, and his coalition face uncertainty and the difficulties of a possible loss of support, an issue that his absolute majority in the National Assembly is in jeopardy
After a first round in which the left, agglomerated under the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) alliance, has had good results, the presidential group appears to be in a bind, with no apparent ability to deliver the necessary maintain his power and keep the cabinet intact.
Macron has already warned his ministers: if they don’t renew their seats they will fall out of government This jeopardizes the 15 senior officials who are running for a seat and who failed to secure in the first round of elections.
Left
The left block, that continues to consolidate despite clearly confusing resultsis only a few tenths behind Macron’s Juntos coalition, even though the country’s three main forces celebrated their own victory.
Mélenchon and his allies have also accused the Interior Ministry of “manipulate” the results whereas there are at least three cases sparking controversy after the ministry did not count as Nupes candidates, some politicians who have pushed to join the parliamentary bloc in case of victory. Among them are essentially the candidates from the Overseas Territories and Corsica.
Nevertheless, the alliance of Mélenchon has obtained 25.66% of the supports and is hot on the heels of the presidential group, which won 25.75% of the vote, according to official data pointing to a very good runoff and questioning the continuity of Macron’s majority in Parliament.
At the back is the far-right National Group, which won 18.68% of the vote and will be left out of the runoff election in the constituency majority decided this Sunday.
Extremely right
Although the cordon sanitaire for Marine Le Pen’s formation seems to be holding up, the main political forces are now exerting themselves bigger battle for the second round for fear of losing support in the constituencies where the National Group has to deal with different candidates.
However, after a week in which many felt that the government has not been able to give clear instructions when it comes to voting and has remained somewhat equidistant, French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has clarified that the position of the Executive is clear: “No vote should be given to the extreme right”.
abstinence
Participation played a fundamental role in last weekend’s elections, when a historical abstinence of more than 52%above the data collected in 2017, already very low.
This reveals the “apathy” of the French electoratewho, according to polls, no longer trusts the head of state in the same way, but has no hope that the left-wing alliance will be more successful where the current government has failed.
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Source: EITB
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