US EditionLe Pen’s Right-Wing Party Is Victorious in First Round of French Elections
- France's far right National Rally party leads the first round of parliamentary elections with about 34% of votes, per exit polls by IFOP, Ipsos, OpinionWay, and Elabe.
- The left-wing New Popular Front coalition follows in second place with about 29%.
- President Emmanuel Macron's centrist bloc ranks third with 20.5-23% of the vote.
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A frenzied political negotiation is taking place in these hours, as the deadline to register candidates for the second round of the upcoming Sunday expires on Tuesday. Marine Le Pen warned that "nothing has been won yet.".
After the right-wing Rassemblement National (RN) of Marine Le Pen's victory in the first round of French parliamentary elections, ... The post Parliamentary Elections: Leftist Protesters Set Streets on Fire appeared first on Apollo News.
French extreme right wing wins legislative elections
According to the final results of Sunday’s elections, the nationalist force led by Marine Le Pen obtained the support of more than 10.6 million voters in the parliamentary elections with the highest participation at the polls in this century, with 66.7 percent of 49.3 million registered voters. The RN victory came with the support of a part of the conservatives, led by the president of the Repulbicans, Éric Ciotti, who defied party members by…
While the National Rally came out on top in the first round of the legislative elections on Sunday 30 June, the financial markets did not sink.
French universities and Grandes Écoles expressed their rejection of the National Rally on Monday, citing the “endangering” of higher education and “the opportunity it offers to all of society.”
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