Posted on 06/30/2024 7:40:31 PM PDT by know.your.why
First estimate puts far-right National Rally in lead With polls now closed, first estimates have been published.
Note that these numbers should be treated with caution: while these figures show broad election dynamics, they do not necessarily reflect the final outcome given that there are 577 constituency votes – and a second round next weekend.
Here are the estimates from IFOP:
Far right National Rally: 34.2%
Leftwing New Popular Front: 29.1%
Emmanuel Macron’s allies Together: 21.5%
Here are the estimates conducted for BFMTV:
Far right National Rally: 33%
Leftwing New Popular Front: 28.5%
Emmanuel Macron’s allies Together: 22%
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally won about 34% of the vote in the first round of legislative election, exit polls showed, putting it in reach of becoming the biggest political force in the French parliament.
The New Popular Front (NFP), a hastily assembled left-wing coalition, was projected to win around 29% of the vote, the exit polls showed, while President Emmanuel Macron’s Together alliance was on about 20.5%-23%.
Nevertheless, national estimates for the first round may not reflect the final breakdown of seats in the national assembly, which depends on races in constituencies. Turnout was very high, with pollster Ipsos estimating that 65.8% of eligible voters cast ballots.
Speaking after polls closed, Le Pen said French people had shown “in an unambiguous vote … their wish to turn the page on seven years of the disdainful and corrosive [presidency]” of Macron.
Far-right figures from across Europe congratulated the National Rally.
Sixty-five MPs were elected in the first round – a high number. These included 38 MPs for the far-right National Rally and its alliance with Eric Ciotti of Les Républicains. That figure is more than double the number Le Pen had said she expected.
Pressure was mounting during the evening from left and centrist figures for tactical voting in the second round next Sunday.
Thousands took part in street demonstrations against the far right, including at the Place de la Republique in Paris, where barricades were set on fire and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the hard left France Unbowed party, addressed the crowd.
Gabriel Attal, the prime minister and a Macron ally, said “not one single vote” should go to the National Rally. “The stakes are clear: to prevent the National Rally from having an absolute majority,” he said.
Mélenchon said the left alliance would withdraw all its candidates who came third in the first round, saying: “Our guideline is simple and clear: not a single more vote for the National Rally.”
However it is not so clear that Macron’s centrist alliance will do the same. In a written statement, Macron called on voters to rally behind candidates who are “clearly republican and democratic”, which, based on his recent declarations, would include the NFP’s more moderate leftwing parties but exclude candidates from France Unbowed.
Attal had been due to sign a decree on Monday morning introducing new limits on unemployment benefits – a policy that had been attacked by the far right and the left – but decided to suspend the decree.
So again they dont like the results of French normies. Time to burn, hurt people, and cheat on the left.
OH no... someone who cares about France for French people. INSURRECTION.
And of course the idiots are saying she is already worse than Hitler and will end democracy....by getting elected. .
Too bad for the extremely Far Left Guardian
Just like here lately.
Yeah, the snowflake nerds at The Guardian frame it as the “ FAR “ Right, against the moderate Left.
Propaganda still abounds.
“Far right” Pfffft! ridiculous.
It’s never “far left” when they win.
It will happen here when Trump wins. Martial Law, etc. Same old commie tactics.
The faggish, commie piggies will not tolerate freedom-loving, conservatives winning elections. Same as here in America.
Trump’s presidency will be chaotic, just like his last term, but at least he’ll stop our slide into poverty and misery that we’ve endured under Bidet. We may also get another SC justice and hopefully there will be no more wars.
Just think of the joy next weekend if FRNR whip some more commie/libgressive butts. 😂👍
The crap MSM in both Europe and the USA were given the order to use the word “far right” with anyone who opposes their agenda.
Why is there a second round of voting coming up, and what happens?
The French have multi round election system that is sort of like a ranked choice system. If nobody gets more than 50% in the first round the lowest candidate is dropped and another round of elections is held. They repeat this process in til someone can form a government
Wow, what a disgusting system the French have. Just like their souls.
It works because they have about 30 or 40 political parties. Imagine if the coalitions that make up the Republican and Democrat parties in the US both split into three to five smaller parties each. In such a situation there will never be a winner unless something similar was done here.
You can also, if you squint, sort of look at the first round as their primary, maybe the first two rounds.
islam.
France is waking up.
The media’s obligatory “far-right”.
So this means a coalition government between the far left and Macrons party?
CC
Leftist never give up power peacefully. It’s always violent.
Been the playbook since 1930 Weirmar Republic
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