(3 Jul 2024)
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Paris – 3 July 2024
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STORYLINE:
A few thousand people gathered on Wednesday in an iconic Paris square to protest against the results of the first round of the French legislative elections.
The National Rally, under party president Jordan Bardella, secured the most votes in the first round of the early legislative elections on June 30 but not enough to claim an overall victory that would allow the formation of France’s first far-right government since World War II.
Round one propelled the National Rally closer than ever to government, but left open the possibility that voters could block its path to power on Sunday.
An unprecedented number of candidates who qualified for round two from the left-wing alliance of the New Popular Front and from President Emmanuel Macron’s weakened centrists have stepped aside to favour the candidate most likely to win against a National Rally opponent. Several Cabinet ministers were among those who abandoned the race.
According to a count by French newspaper Le Monde, some 218 candidates supposed to compete in the second round have pulled out.
Of those, 130 were on the left and 82 came from the Macron-led centrist alliance Ensemble, it counted.
Macron dissolved the National Assembly and called the snap election on June 9 after a stinging defeat at the hands of the National Rally in French voting for the European Parliament.
The unpopular president gambled that the far right would not repeat that success when France’s own fate was in the balance.
But Macron’s plan backfired. He is now accused, even by members of his own camp, of opening a door for the National Rally by calling voters back to the ballot box, especially when so many are angry over inflation, the cost of living, immigration and at Macron himself.
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