Two months after his re-election to the far right, Macron hopes to regain an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, which consists of 577 deputies.
French overseas and foreign voters began voting today in the second round of parliamentary elections, the outcome of which will determine President Emmanuel Macron’s maneuvers, especially in terms of reforms for the next five years.
Two months after his re-election to the far right, Macron hopes to regain an absolute majority in the National Assembly againthe lower house of parliament, which consists of 577 deputies.
The struggle is predicted to be more difficult than five years ago after the success recorded in the first round of the parliamentary elections last Sunday by the alliance of Left parties under the name Nupes and the Far Right.
The “key” is in the hands of at least 48 million voters who are called to the polls tomorrow, Sunday, from 06:00 Greenwich Mean Time (09:00 Greek time). Due to the time difference, overseas voters, however, started voting from today.
First in Saint-Pierre-et-Michel, an archipelago off Canada at 08:00 local time (12:00 Paris time) and then in Guyana, South and North America, and the French Caribbean islands of Martinique. Guadeloupe, Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy.
In the Pacific, Polynesia will begin voting at 22:00 in Paris, as will the Wallis and Futuna Islands, followed by New Caledonia.
In the Indian Ocean, voters will vote tomorrow. So at 06:00, Paris time, the polling stations in Reunion will open, followed at 07:00 by those of Mayotte.
The second round begins at the end of a week marked by poisonous exchanges between the two coalitions that advanced side by side in the first round: the Together coalition around the presidential party and the left-wing Nupes alliance, which unites communist, ecological and the radical left.
Earlier this week, Emmanuel Macron dramatized the stakes, just before leaving for a tour of Eastern Europe and a visit to Ukraine, warning against the “extremes” that would sow “disorder” in France.
For his part, the leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Melasson, who hopes to secure a majority and impose a cohabitation on the head of state, threatened a “riot” if the French do not rush to the polls this weekend.
The far right, which articulates around Marin Le Pen and its National Alarm (RN) party, could in turn reach the limit of 15 deputies and form a parliamentary group in the National Assembly, which would mean more means and time to speak in the semicircle. .
In the middle of a heat wave, abstention can once again be massive. In the first round of voting, one in two French people did not go to the polls, a record.
