The left-wing New Popular Front coalition has won between 180 and 215 seats in the National Assembly following the second round of the French legislative elections held on Sunday, thus avoiding a majority for the far-right National Rally party, which won between 120 and 150 seats and is thus in third place, according to the projections published by the TF1 and LCI channels.
The second group in the National Assembly is for Together for the Republic, the parties close to the current president of France, Emmanuel Macron, in an election marked by a historic turnout estimated at 67.1 percent, an unprecedented figure since 1997. These results represent a reversal with respect to the first round, in which the National Rally was the most voted party with more than 33 percent support.
Following these results, left-wing and centrist parties have launched a cordon sanitaire to try to prevent a far-right government. The National Assembly has 577 seats, giving it an absolute majority of 289.
The leader of the New Popular Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has called on President Emmanuel Macron to task them with forming a government. Macron “has a duty to call on the New Popular Front to govern,” Mélenchon told supporters gathered in Paris.
“The Prime Minister must go” and Macron “must give in and admit this defeat without trying to avoid it in any way.” “The President has the power, he has the duty to call the New Popular Front to govern,” the left-wing leader stressed.
||Europa Press
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2024-07-08 15:42:11
