Jordan Bardell’s far-right National Rally party won 33.14%, or 10,625,662 votes.
French far-right party National Association and its allies received 33.14% of the votes in the first round of parliamentary elections, ahead of the left New Popular Front with 27.99% and President Macron’s centrist bloc with 20%. This was reported by BFMTV on Monday, July 1.
Jordan Bardell’s right-wing National Rally won 33.14%, or 10,625,662 votes. The party increased the results of the previous parliamentary elections in 2022 by 2.5 times.
Left New Popular Front received 27.99%, or 8,974,463 votes. The left also significantly improved its results compared to the 2022 elections.
Pro-presidential parties forming the coalition togetherreceived 20.76%, or about 6.4 million votes.
The turnout in the first round was 66.71%. The second round of elections will take place on July 7.
Let’s remember that on June 9, President Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly and called early elections due to the failure of his social liberal Renaissance party in the European Parliament elections.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris tonight to protest against the results of the exit polls of the parliamentary elections, according to which the far right won National Association.
Source: korrespondent
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