Breaking news: Exit polls by Ipsos-Sopra Steria companies at 8 PM local time show that the Ensemble alliance will not win a majority in the 577-seat National Assembly in the runoff. According to the exit polls, the Ensemble can get 224 deputies to the National Assembly. The party (or alliance) that receives the majority of 289 deputies or more as a result of the elections will be able to form the government. On the other hand, with the initiative of the ultra-leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon, the “Social and Ecological New People’s Union” (Nupes) alliance, which includes the LFI, the Green Party (EEVL), the Socialist Party (PS) and the Communist Party (PCF), seems to have 149 deputies to the parliament. .
While the number of deputies to represent the far-right National Union (RN) is 89, various right-wing parties, including the centre-right Republicans Party (LR), Union of Independents and Democrats (UDI), can get a total of 78 deputies.
According to the exit polls of Ifop-Fiducial companies at 20:30 local time, the number of seats that the Ensemble alliance can obtain in the parliament appears to be 210 to 240, while Nupes is predicted to get 170 to 195 seats.
According to this poll, the RN alone can win 80 to 95 deputies, while the total number of deputies of the LR and its allied parties remains at 55 to 65.
MINISTERS FAILED IN THE GENERAL ELECTION WILL REsign
It was previously stated that those who could not be elected as deputies out of 14 ministerial candidates in the cabinet, as well as French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, who went to the second round of the election, would resign from the cabinet.
According to the results announced by the Governorship of Guadeloupe, one of the overseas territories of France, the Minister of State for Maritime Affairs Justine Benin, who is a parliamentary candidate in the 2nd constituency of Guadeloupe, lost the race against her left opponent.
According to the uncertain results reported by the press, while the parliamentary candidate Brigitte Bourguignon, the Minister of Health and Amelie de Montchalin, the Minister of Ecological Transition and Regional Integration were defeated, the current Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and Disabled Persons Damien Abad, Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau, Foreign Trade Minister Franck Riester and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Olivier Veran were elected as MPs.
It is recorded that the far-right leader Marine Le Pen won the 11th constituency of the Pas-de-Calais province, where he is vying for the seat of parliament.
In the first round of the general election in France, a second round is held for the seats in which a candidate cannot obtain an absolute majority. Candidates who receive 12.5 percent or more of the votes in the first round qualify for the second round. The candidate with the most votes in this round is elected as a member of parliament.
There are approximately 48.7 million voters in the country. (AA)