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French election: Far right hopes to win but deadlock looms
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0ygnyxgnqo
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France is voting in one of its most significant elections in years, with the far right hoping for a historic victory, but with political stalemate the more likely result.This is the first time the anti-immigration National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella has had a realistic chance of running the government and taking outright control of the National Assembly.But after the RN’s first-round victory last Sunday, more than 200 rival candidates dropped out to give others a better chance of defeating the far right.Voting ends at 20:00 (18:00 GMT) and by midday turnout was 26.63%, marginally up on the first round and the highest figure in a parliamentary vote since 1981.
Whatever the result, it is difficult to see President Emmanuel Macron coming out of this well.Four weeks ago, he said it was the responsible solution to call a snap vote in response to the RN’s victory in European elections, minutes after the party’s 28-year-old leader Jordan Bardella challenged him to do so.It is not yet clear if there will be another presidential address after the exit polls come out when voting ends on Sunday evening.The two-round election came as a shock to a country gearing up for the start of the Paris Olympics on 26 July.
“He’s compromised the running of the Paris 2024 Olympics, which could deliver a final blow to France’s credit and its image,” he wrote in Le Point on the eve of the vote.The constituency that includes Dreux is one of the races to watch in the second round of this election.
They both qualified for the run-off, along with a candidate from the left-wing New Popular Front, which is in second place nationally.But because Nadia Faveris was narrowly beaten into third by her conservative rival, she pulled out of the race “to block National Rally”.One voter, Morgan, was sceptical that anything would change in the town, whoever won.
There have been 217 of these withdrawals across France, including 130 Popular Front candidates and 81 from the president’s Ensemble alliance.And that has dramatically changed the balance of this pivotal general election.There are 577 seats in the French parliament and projections after Sunday’s first round gave the RN a fighting chance of securing an outright majority of 289.
President Macron’s party had to make do with similar numbers until he became frustrated with his limited ability to pass reforms in parliament.That kind of RN government is unlikely, believes Prof Armin Steinbach of HEC business school in Paris.
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