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France holds early elections/ The extreme right hopes to make history

2024-06-30 09:34:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
France holds early elections/ The extreme right hopes to make history
French President Emmanuel Macron. Source: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images

France holds historic early parliamentary elections this Sunday, with the far right closer to power than it has ever been in modern times.

The National Rally (RN) of Marine le Pen and Jordan Bardella are well ahead in the polls three weeks to the day since they won the European elections and President Emmanuel Macron reacted by calling a national vote.

More than 2.6 million people out of France's 49 million voters have registered to vote by proxy, an indication of the high turnout expected for such an important election.

This is a two-round election and most of the 577 National Assembly seats will not be decided until the second round runoff next Sunday.

The campaign lasted just 20 days, and it also benefited the National Rally, which made existing promises on immigration, insecurity and tax cuts to tackle the cost of living crisis.

Bardella wants to be the first prime minister of the National Rally and his party is confident of winning dozens of constituencies outright in the first round. But he says he will only take the job if the party secures an absolute parliamentary majority of 289 seats.

Macron's allies are outraged by his early election game. Macron will meet on Monday with his prime minister and other members of the government to decide their next move./ CNA





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