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France was heading for a divided parliament after Sunday’s election, in which a left-wing alliance unexpectedly took first place ahead of the far right, preventing Marine Le Pen’s
France was heading for a divided parliament after Sunday’s election, in which a left-wing alliance unexpectedly took first place ahead of the far right, preventing Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) from leading the government.
The result, if confirmed, would leave parliament divided into three large groups with very different platforms and no tradition of working together.
According to pollsters’ forecasts based on early opinion poll results, a left-wing alliance of the far left, the socialists and the Greens, who have long been at odds, will win between 172 and 215 seats out of the 577 electoral college seats.
These forecasts are usually reliable.
When the scores were announced, there were shouts of joy and tears of relief at a meeting of the left alliance in Paris. At the Green headquarters, militants shouted with joy and hugged each other.
On the other hand, at the headquarters of the far-right party, the young people of RN checked their phones and remained silent, clenching their jaws and crying.
Either way, the result would be humiliating for Macron, whose centrist alliance, which he founded to support his first presidential bid in 2017, was expected to come in second and win between 150 and 180 seats.
But it will also be a major disappointment for Marine Le Pen’s nationalist and Eurosceptic National Rally.
RN was expected to receive between 115 and 155 places.
The first official results were expected late on Sunday, with results from most, if not all, constituencies likely to be known by late afternoon or early Monday.
Voters have punished Macron and his ruling alliance for the cost of living crisis and the inefficiency of public services, as well as immigration and security.
Le Pen and her party have seized on these grievances, extending their appeal beyond their traditional strongholds along the Mediterranean coast and into the country’s northern industrial belt.
But the left alliance managed to displace them from the first place.
This was partly due to limited cooperation between Macron’s centrist Together alliance and the left, which was designed to block the far right from coming to power.
Le Pen’s rivals withdrew more than 200 candidates from the three-way runoff race in an attempt to create a unified vote against RN.
The Constitution stipulates that new parliamentary elections cannot be held for another year, so an immediate repeat of the elections is not permissible.
Reuters
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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