France, 169 candidates withdraw to try to contain Le Pen in the second round –

There are 169 candidates who have passed to the second round of the legislative elections in France and who have withdrawn to make a ‘blockade’ against the candidates of the Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella and favor the aspiring deputies who would have a better chance of beating the lepenists. According to the count of Le Monde, at 5 pm 169 candidates had withdrawn: 122 are from the left of the New Popular Front, 46 from the Macronist bloc and one from the Republicans. In fact, there are 306 possible “triangular” (the ‘three-way ballot’) and five potential “quadrangular” in light of the results of yesterday’s first round. The deadline to decide whether to withdraw the candidacy is scheduled for tomorrow at 6 pm.

According to the final results provided by the Ministry of the Interior, the Rassemblement National came first in the first round of the legislative elections with 33.1% of the vote, followed by the Nouvelle Front Populaire (the union of the left) with 28% and the presidential coalition Ensamble at 20%. The Republicans, not aligned with the RN, collected 6.7% of the vote. The turnout was 66.7%.