The French went to the polls this Sunday (19) for the second round of legislative elections. According to the provisional results, announced at 8:00 pm local time (13:00 GMT), the coalition formed around President Emmanuel Macron’s party won 224 seats against 149 of the left union. As a result, the president, who was re-elected in April, loses his majority in the House and is forced to negotiate with the left in his second term. The election also marks significant progress on the far right, with 89 seats.
The French went to the polls this Sunday (19) for the second round of legislative elections. According to the provisional results, announced at 8:00 pm local time (13:00 GMT), the coalition formed around President Emmanuel Macron’s party won 224 seats against 149 of the left union. As a result, the president, who was re-elected in April, loses his majority in the House and is forced to negotiate with the left in his second term. The election also marks significant progress on the far right, with 89 seats.
Due to France’s majority electoral system, Macron’s coalition had to elect 289 out of 577 deputies so that the president could implement the reforms he had promised during the campaign unhindered. As it does not reach that number, it will depend on agreements with the opposition to pass bills and reforms by the Executive.
Macron’s main opponent in this election was the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), a coalition that for the first time in 25 years managed to unite most of the left under a single group with the participation of ecologists, communists and communists. socialists. , in addition to France Insubmissa (FI), a party of the radical left.
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of disobedient France, who narrowly missed the runoff of April’s presidential election with almost 22% of the vote, the legislative election is his revenge. Since third in the presidential race, he says his goal is to prevent Macron from implementing his liberal line program and becoming the next prime minister if possible.
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Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far-right, saw this second round of the legislative elections as an opportunity to strengthen his party in the National Assembly. According to preliminary results, his party’s National Assembly is expected to elect more than 15 deputies, the required number to form a parliamentary group.
But with initial results pointing to 89 seats for Le Pen’s party, the party will form not only a group, something that has not happened in France since 1986, but could also influence the decisions of the country’s laws in the years to come. .
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More than 48 million French people qualified for the elections. However, since voting is not compulsory in France, the turnout rate was one of the most observed indicators in the election. By noon, 18.99% had already voted, a slight increase (0.56%) from the first round. However, at 17.00, this rate became 38.11%, a 1.31% decrease compared to the first round, where 39.42% of the voters cast their votes at the same time.
The rate of abstention in this second round of the legislative elections was 54%, according to the first figures released at 8 pm, shortly after all the polls were closed.
source: Noticias
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