The first round of voting in the French National Assembly election ended on the evening of June 30 local time. Exit polls show that the far-right party National Alliance leads the way. According to French media reports, dissatisfied with the election results, a large number of demonstrators gathered in Paris that night to set off fireworks and shout slogans to protest against the National Alliance, which was leading in the first round of voting.
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Subsequently, riots broke out in the streets of Paris. Protesters lit flares, smashed shop windows and set fires. French riot police have been deployed. It is also understood that similar protest rallies were held in Lyon and other French cities that night.
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At 20 o'clock local time on June 30 (2 o'clock on July 1, Beijing time), the first round of voting in the French National Assembly election ended. According to preliminary estimates by the French polling agency institut Elabe, in the first round of voting, the far-right National Alliance won 33% of the vote, leading the vote. The Left Alliance "New Popular Front" received 28.5% of the votes, ranking second; The ruling Ba'ath Party and the centrist coalition came in third with 22 percent of the vote.
According to an exit poll released that night, the far-right National Alliance led the way with 34 percent support, followed by the newly formed left-wing coalition "New Popular Front" with 28.1 percent of the vote, and the ruling party coalition "Together" with 20.3 percent of the vote, ranking third.
It is reported that the voter turnout in the first round was 69.7%, a record high since the 1986 parliamentary elections. The French polling agency Institut Ellabe estimates that the far-right National Alliance is expected to occupy between 260 and 310 seats in the National Assembly, an absolute majority. The Left Alliance, the New Popular Front, is expected to occupy between 115 and 145 seats; The ruling Ba'ath Party and the centrist coalition will occupy 90 to 120 seats.
The National Assembly elections will elect 577 members of the National Assembly for a five-year term. The election adopts a two-round voting system, in which the candidates receive more than half of the votes in the first round of voting, they are directly elected; If no candidate receives a majority of the votes, the candidate who receives the support of not less than 12.5% of the registered voters in the constituency proceeds to the second round of voting, where the candidate with the highest number of votes is elected. The second round of voting is scheduled for July 7.
French National Assembly elections are held every five years, and French President Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9 due to the crushing defeat of the ruling Baath Party in the previous European Parliament elections, and a new National Assembly election was held ahead of schedule.
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Stephen Zumsteag, director of the public opinion and social research department of the French polling agency Ipsos, previously said in an interview with the main station reporter that Macron's dissolution of the National Assembly and early parliamentary elections is to reunite French voters who oppose extremism and support the idea of the republic. However, the dissolution of parliament is a very risky decision, and the impact of the National Assembly elections will be far-reaching.
Cui Hongjian, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study of Regional and Global Governance at Beijing University of Foreign Chinese, believes that no matter what the outcome of the French National Assembly election will be in a week's time, the election itself has already shown that not only French politics, but also the entire European politics, has become more and more obvious to accelerate the trend of turning to the right. If France is embroiled in intensifying internal political struggles for a long time, and the rise of the far right affects the French government's domestic and foreign policies, there is no doubt that it will be a big challenge for decision-making at the EU level. It is likely that the future development of the EU will be unclear, and the decision-making efficiency will be inefficient, and even a trend of integration regression to a certain extent.
△ French Prime Minister Gabriel Attar. Source: CCTV News
- Macron called on supporters to oppose the far-right party National Rally
Faced with the current situation, Macron called on supporters to hold a "broad rally" in the second round of voting against the far-right party National Rally after the results of the first round of voting. French Prime Minister Attar is likely to be forced to resign after the second round of voting, AFP said, warning that the far right is now standing in front of the "gates of power". For his part, Rafael Glucksmann, a key figure in the Syriza coalition, stressed that "we have seven days to save France from disaster." With less than a month left before the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the story of whether Macron's "political gamble" can win and where France will go is still to be continued.
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