The French Interior Ministry announced on Monday the final results of voting in the first round of parliamentary elections – the “National Rally” came first with 33.14% of the vote.
According to the Interior Ministry, more than 10.6 million French people voted for this nationalist party and its allies, reports BFMTV. The TV channel notes that the “National Union” increased in 2.5 times the result of the previous parliamentary elections in 2022.
In second position is the left-wing New Popular Front bloc with 27.99% of the vote. The leftists have also significantly improved their result compared to the 2022 elections, when 5.8 million voters voted for their coalition New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes). In the first round of the current election, they received almost 9 million votes.
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The parties of the presidential camp, acting as the Together coalition, received just over 20% of the vote. 6.4 million French people voted for them.
Due to the defeat of the presidential social-liberal Renaissance party in the June 9 elections to the European Parliament, which lost to the National Union, President Emmanuel Macron announced on the same day the dissolution of the National Assembly and called early legislative elections.
The first round of elections to the lower house of the French parliament – the National Assembly – was held the day before, the second round will be held on July 7.
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