National Rally Wins First Round of French Parliamentary Elections

BREAKING: French far-right wins first round of parliamentary election – exit poll pic.twitter.com/titNT4UAXJ

— BNO News (@BNONews) June 30, 2024

?? | La reacción de Le Pen y su equipo al enterarse de que ha ganado la primera vuelta de las elecciones legislativas francesas. pic.twitter.com/fGbSOFGKV9

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After Marine Le Pen won the 1st round of the French election with her right wing party …

Muslims, left-wing parties and communists are attacking police, looting stores and setting fires.

You can hear chants of “Allahu Akbar”. pic.twitter.com/pPSUW4hDaA

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 30, 2024

A staggering 77 seats have already been declared in the French election. This means a candidate won an outright majority. In 2022, only FOUR seats had a majority!

National Rally: 38
NR backed Rep: 1
Independent Conservatives: 2
Republicans: 1
Ensemble: 2
New Popular Front: 33 pic.twitter.com/5m6vOIiqLO

— National Conservative (@NatCon2022) July 1, 2024

BREAKING:

Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets across France to protest against Marin Le Pen’s National Rally party winning the first round of the parliamentary elections.

In this video from Paris, they are chanting “No pasarán”

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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 30, 2024

I have seen many, many French elections over the years.

Typically, the National Front / National Rally gains ground and performs well in the first round of voting. The second round is where conservatives, liberals and leftists unite to box out nationalists.

The Hill:

National Rally and its allied parties won about 33 percent of the vote in the first round, according to early projections. A left-wing coalition of parties received 28 percent of the vote, while Macron’s coalition gathered 21 percent. …

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, a Macron ally, warned of dire stakes if his opponents prevail in the second round of voting next week.

A runoff will be held in districts where no parliamentary candidate secured 50 percent of the vote, and maneuvering in the coming days will decide the dynamics for each local race. National Rally would need 289 out of the 577 seats to secure an outright majority. …

Politico:

The National Rally is on course to obtain its strongest-ever finish in the first round of a nationwide election. It is likely to have won dozens of seats even before the second round once the final results are tallied, including that of its presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who secured her seat with more than 50 percent of the vote in her home turf of Hénin-Beaumont, in Northern France. …

The biggest loser of the night appear to be Macron and his allies. Significantly trailing both its rivals, the centrist coalition will likely lose dozens of the 250 seats it currently holds in the National Assembly, with little prospect of forming a new governing coalition. Early estimates showed the presidential camp was eliminated in nearly half of all districts. …

Clearly, it was a mistake for Macron to call for an election. The National Rally did very well. We will have to wait and see how the second round goes before celebrating though.