France – The left-wing New Popular Front coalition in France won first place in the second round of the early general elections held yesterday, Sunday, with 176 seats in parliament.
According to the results announced by the French Interior Ministry, the coalition of 4 parties won the largest number of seats in parliament in the early general elections, the second round of which was held yesterday, Sunday.
Macron’s coalition thus entered parliament with 150 deputies, while the far-right National Rally party won 125 deputies.
With these results, no coalition or party was able to obtain an absolute majority of 289 members of parliament.
The ministry’s statement said that the turnout in the early general elections reached 66.6 percent.
49.5 million French voters headed to the polls on Sunday in the second round to determine the 501 deputies who will represent them in parliament for a five-year term, in addition to the 76 deputies elected in the first round.
1,094 candidates competed in the second round, and parties or alliances had to reach 289 deputies to obtain an absolute majority in the 577-seat parliament.
On June 9, Macron dissolved parliament and called for early elections, following the National Rally party won more than 31 percent of the vote in the European Parliament elections, and Macron’s centrist bloc was defeated.
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2024-07-08 13:01:12
