On June 30, 2024, a woman walked out of the polling station before voting in Le Touquet, northwest France.
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LONDON – France’s left-wing New Popular Front coalition will unexpectedly win the most seats in the country’s second round of parliamentary elections but fall short of an outright majority, early data shows.
According to reports, the New Popular Front – a coalition of five parties including the far-left French Indignation Party, the Socialist Party and the Ecologists – could get between 180 and 215 seats in the latest round of elections. IFOP estimate French broadcaster TV 1.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble party and its allies are expected to gain between 150 and 180 seats, according to IFOP, while the far-right National Rally party won the first round and is widely seen as likely to remain strong in the election. Election – ranked third with 120-150 seats.
No party secured an outright majority of the 289 seats necessary to govern alone, suggesting a hung parliament in Europe’s third-largest economy could open on Monday if Sunday’s results are confirmed.
Initial votes suggested the National Assembly would become the largest party in France’s National Assembly, but over the last week center-right and left-wing factions have united to try to block its advance, withdrawing candidates in many constituencies where others have One candidate is in a better position.
By providing voters with tighter choices and fewer candidates, opponents of registered nursing hope voters will choose non-registered nursing candidates. The move seemed to work, with anti-RN voters galvanized into action. The polling agency Ipsos said turnout in the second round of voting was as high as 67.1%, the highest level since 1997.
“The head of state must bow and admit defeat. The prime minister must leave,” Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of France’s Insurgent Party, said in a program translated by CNBC. Social media updates after early polling data was released. “Mr Macron must call on the NFP to govern. It is ready to apply its agenda to all its agenda and nothing else.”
He added that the party had “tirelessly” opposed Macron’s policies over the past seven years.
“We reject any alliance with the president’s camp,” Mélenchon said. In another article translated by CNBC.
France may now be locked in a period of bargaining and instability as political coalitions aim to form a government, but it is unclear how far President Macron is willing to go with a left-wing coalition.
The country finds itself in uncharted waters: President Macron shocked Europe’s political establishment by announcing the decision after his Ennahda party was defeated by national rallies in June’s EU parliamentary elections. Macron’s move is an extreme gamble, in which the president is betting that French citizens will fear and ultimately reject the prospect of a far-right government. The final round of elections showed that voters ultimately rejected Macron.
This breaking news story is being updated.
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