(30 Jun 2024)
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Paris, France – 30 June 2024
1. Various of square where the left wing alliance parties are expected to react
2. Close of statue of La Republique square
3. Various of people gathering at square
4. Wide of young voter
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Cynthia Fefoheio, 19-year-old student of political sciences:
“As predicted we are going towards the extreme, people don’t understand that this will impact us for years and years, this is a France of hate that is growing, not a France of solidarity and union. It touches me deeply, it’s the racism growing, the homophobia, all of this. It is deplorable, trully deplorable.”
6. Various of people in square
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Thomas (surname not given), 18-year-old student:
“Yes I am very much worried, I have many friends that are bi-national. When we listen to the extremist racist measures, that reminds us the France of Vichy, when they speak against bi-nationals they are talking about an anti-France. They take us back to the war days, I barely have words…”
8. Wide of people at square wearing Palestinian flags
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Stephanie Frebault, English teacher
(on the second round):
“Listen, like it happened during the previous election the voices of the left joined the right, we expect that this time around the voices of the right can join the left.”
10. Wide of group of friends
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Daniel Gwendal, 23 year-old public worker
(on the second round):
“I don’t know, maybe an early appeal from Macron, I don’t know I don’t have sources but maybe he can appeal for a vote against the far-right. I hope, I hope for a union between the right and the left.”
12. Various of square
STORYLINE:
Some French voters on Sunday reacted to projections indicating that the far-right National Rally took a strong but not decisive lead in the first-round vote in France’s high-stakes legislative elections.
French polling agencies indicated that President Emmanuel Macron’s grouping of centrist parties could finish a distant third in the first-round ballot.
Their projections put Macron’s camp behind both Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and a new left-wing coalition of parties that joined forces to keep her anti-immigration party with historical links to antisemitism from being able to form the first far-right government in France since World War II.
But with another torrid week of campaigning to come before the decisive final voting next Sunday, the election’s ultimate outcome remained uncertain.
Some people in Paris said on Sunday the projections worried them.
Macron urged voters to rally against the far right in the second round of balloting.
Le Pen called on voters to give the National Rally an “absolute majority” at parliament. She said a National Rally majority would enable the far right to form a new government with party President Jordan Bardella as prime minister in order to work on France’s “recovery.”
Projections by polling agencies suggest the National Rally stands a good chance of winning a majority in the lower house of parliament for the first time, with an estimated one-third of the first-round vote, nearly double their 18% in the first round in 2022.
Many French voters are frustrated about inflation and other economic concerns, as well as President Emmanuel Macron’s leadership, seen as arrogant and out-of-touch with their lives. Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally party has tapped that discontent, notably via online platforms like TikTok, and led in pre-election opinion polls.
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