France This Monday began its uncertain campaign for the legislative elections advanced by the president Emmanuel Macron with the aim of detaining an extreme right in a position of strength and which is announced as a disaster for its centrist alliance.
Macron surprised with this electoral advance just an hour after the closing of polling stations on June 9th of the elections for European Parliamentin which the far right National Group (RN) obtained 31.37% of the votes in France.
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But the first polls on the legislative elections on June 30th and July 7th give around 30% of voting intentions for RNfollowed by the left-wing coalition New Popular Front (25%) and the centrist alliance of Macron (twenty%).
Polls show an uncertain scenario, with a rebalancing of the three blocs that emerged from the 2022 elections, which could lead to the president, whose term ends in 2027, having to share power with a government from another political color.
Faced with the prospect of a government in RN, tens of thousands of people demonstrated over the weekend and sports stars called on young people to vote. “Extremism is at the gates of power, we have the opportunity to decide the future of our country”asked the football player Kylian Mbappé.
The Ministry of the Interior indicated that, since June 10, it has issued some 410,000 powers so that people who cannot go to vote vote for someone of their choice, six and a half times more than in the same period of the 2022 legislative elections. The second round coincides with the beginning of the legislative elections. school holidays of summer.
With victory at hand, RN seeks to reassure voters. “You don’t have to be afraid. “Our party is like any other (…) People shouldn’t believe that everything is going to fall apart.”said his vice president Sébastien Chenu.
The leader of the far right Marina LePen managed to moderate the image of his anti-immigrant party before the eyes of the electorate, far from the old National Front founded in 1972 by his father Jean-Marie Le PenKnown for his racist and anti-Semitic comments.
The party, which has placed purchasing power as one of its priorities, will revoke Macron’s unpopular pension reform this year, its deputy stressed this Monday. Jean-Philippe Tanguyafter the far-right candidate for prime minister, Jordan Bardella, will not consider this a “priority”.
Ahead of the legislative elections, RN also obtained the support of the president of Los Republicanos (LR), Eric Ciottiwhose proposed “alliance” divided his former ruling party with Charles de Gaulle, Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Pacts and disagreements
The fear of an extreme right-wing government forced the left-wing opposition to overcome its differences and present itself once again united in New Popular Frontwhich brings together social democrats such as former president François Netherlands even anti-capitalist.
But its main challenge is to overcome the open crisis with La France Unsubmissive (LFIradical left) to dismiss five outgoing deputies who criticize their leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon and redirect a loved one convicted of spousal violence.
This last one, Adrien Quatennensended up renouncing his candidacy, while four of the five sections decided to maintain theirs against the new candidates from LFI and received support from socialist, communist and environmentalist allies.
The centrist alliance of Macron seeks to position itself as the alternative against “extremes” –in reference to RN and LFI– which, according to the Prime Minister Gabriel Attalwould pose a risk of “catastrophe for the economy and employment”.
To avoid an electoral disaster, the ruling alliance “Together for the Republic” presented candidates in 489 of the 577 French single-member constituencies and reached specific non-aggression pacts with candidates from LR anti-Ciotti.
These pacts increase the uncertainty of the result two weeks before the first round of these elections, which will also feature dissident candidacies within the left and 62 candidates.sets” by RN with the LR de Ciotti.
Source: Elcomercio
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