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France election: Mbappé urges youth to vote against 'extremists' as campaign kicks-off
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France’s star footballer Kylian Mbappé urged voters to stand against “extremist” parties, as campaigning in the country’s parliamentary elections kicked off.President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election earlier this month, following a victory for his rival Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally in European elections.With less than two weeks before the vote, his centrist alliance risks being squeezed by new coalitions on the left and right.On Saturday, police estimated that a quarter of a million people protested across France against the prospect of the far-right coming to power.
Speaking in Germany ahead of France’s opening Euro 2024 fixture on Sunday night, Mbappé urged young voters to reject “extremists”, who he said were “at the gates of power”.
Mbappé didn’t name those he considered to be extremists, but was responding to a question about his teammate Marcus Thuram, who said he wanted to keep the far-right National Rally party from power during a recent interview.
Candidates had until Sunday evening to register for the 577 seats in the lower house National Assembly ahead of the official start of campaigning from Monday.Mr Macron’s dissolving of parliament was intended to “create a new parliamentary majority," former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, who leads a party allied to the president’s bloc, told BFMTV.The opening days of the campaign have seen new alliances emerge on the extreme left and right of France’s politics.
Meanwhile, on the right, a furious row has broken out in the Republicans party, after its leader - Eric Ciotti - agreed an electoral pact with the far-right.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who is leading the campaign for the president’s bloc, said voters had three choices.The left-wing Popular Front and the far-right National Rally would both be “a disaster for the country”, he said.
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