The media is allowed to publish estimates for the distribution of seats after the closing of the last ballot box
At 6 pm (French time) the ballot boxes of the second round of the parliamentary elections in France close, except for the polling stations in the big cities, where they are expected to close two hours later.
The exit polls will give the assessment of the result at 9 pm (Greek time).
The media is allowed to publish estimates for the distribution of seats after the closing of the last ballot box.
French President Emmanuel Macron exercised his right to vote early in the afternoon by calling on them voters to make “democracy alive”.
“Like the millions of French men and women expected in the polls today, I voted. “I thank all those who allowed the vote to take place: you are keeping our democracy alive,” Macron tweeted.
Like the millions of French and French attending the polling stations today, I’ve voted. Merci out all cells and all that permits the scrutiny of the tenor: you must live in our democracy. pic.twitter.com/vrV1sSNfQd
– Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 19, 2022
Polls in recent days show Macron’s faction tending to an absolute majority of seats, but this does not seem guaranteed.
He failed to be elected minister
A first, albeit peculiar, taste of election results arrived in France from its overseas departments – where the polls have already closed – and in particular Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana.
Apartments with strong peculiarities and local electoral combinations, which generally lean to the left, after in the first round of the presidential election they brought first Jean-Luc Melanson, who came third in the whole of France.
According to press reports, the Melanson faction appears to confirm its primacy by electing eight of its nine candidates.
The faction of the presidential majority of Emanuel Macron loses three seats with Guadeloupe being the most iconic, where Undersecretary Justin Benin failed to get elected and therefore must now resign from Macron’s government.
However, according to most media analysts, these results are not conducive to drawing broader political conclusions, as they concern geographical areas thousands of kilometers away from France and societies with strong local characteristics.
Estimates of the result
The coalition of the Left parties is said to be heading for second place, winning about 200 seats, far fewer than the 289 that would allow its leader Jean-Luc Melanson to be named by Mr Macron as the new prime minister.
In the first round, the faction close to Mr Macron received 25.75% of the vote, according to the French Interior Ministry, while the faction close to Mr Melanson received 25.66%.
The Melanson faction denounced fraud, claiming that some left-wing candidates were counted as independents.
In third place, with 18.68%, came the far-right party of Marin Le Pen, which today hopes to elect more than 15 deputies, which is the limit to be recognized as an official parliamentary group in the French National Assembly, gaining prestige – and economic resources.
In today’s second round of parliamentary elections, voters are asked to choose in each constituency one of the two candidates who came first in the first round of voting.
There are, however, eight constituencies where there are three candidates, while in five others the deputies were elected in the first round. There are 419 candidates from the Macron faction, 386 from the Melanson faction, 208 from Le Pen and 87 neo-Gol Republicans, candidates from the traditional French right.
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